Eggshell Finish: Dark Colors Can't Use Flat Paint

Comparison of the luster of two dark walls of the same color. The left side is matte: the surface reflects nothing, making the dark color a depthless black hole where the wall's end is indiscernible, and any scratch or fingerprint cannot be wiped away. The right side has an eggshell finish: the surface has a very slight reflection, creating soft variations in light and shadow when light skims across it, giving the wall depth, shape, and making corners visible; it is also washable. Both walls are exactly the same color, differing only in sheen. This is a choice often overlooked in dark spaces. Avoid: making the two versions similar, using high-gloss paint in the correct version to create glaring reflections, changing the color of either wall, eliminating grazing light to obscure the difference.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

兩面同色深牆的光澤對照。左側是平光的:表面完全不反射,深色因此變成一片沒有深度的黑洞,看不出牆在哪裡結束,而且任何一點刮痕與手印都無法擦拭。右側是蛋殼光的:表面有極輕微的反射,當光掠過時會出現柔和的明暗變化,牆面因此有深度、有形狀、看得出轉角在哪裡;而且可以擦洗。兩者的顏色完全相同,差別只在光澤度。這是深色空間最常被忽略的一個選擇。避免:讓兩者相似、在正確版本使用高光的漆造成刺眼反射、改變兩者的顏色、消除掠射光讓差異看不出來。