Tap the swatch to see it full screen. Colours on a screen are a guide, not a match, so come and feel the real cloth.

Zoffany

Gargoyle

2026 Paint PaintZOP1045-25

The house has discontinued this one. We are keeping the page so the link still works, but we can no longer order it. There are alternatives below, and if you have a cutting or a photograph we will help you match it.

Gargoyle is Zoffany’s grounded grey, with a clean, architectural feel and a cool cast. In the 2026 Paint range, it sits as a strong neutral that can hold a room without going black.

medium slate grey plain none smart both

Ask Simon for something similar Browse what we do carry

See this colour on Zoffany's own site, then order it through us.

About this colour

This shade reads as a mid-deep grey with a slight blue-green cast, so it feels cooler than a true charcoal but softer than a hard industrial grey. It absorbs a fair amount of light, which gives walls a calm, settled look rather than a bright reflective one. In north-facing rooms, Gargoyle can lean more slate-like and feel noticeably cooler; in south-facing light, the warmth in the room brings out its steadier, more balanced grey side. It works well beside pale oak, walnut, blackened metal and muted upholstery tones such as oatmeal, stone, ink blue and moss.

How to use it

Use Gargoyle in a sitting room, study or hallway where you want a composed backdrop for joinery or panelling. It suits painted woodwork, dark timber furniture and upholstered pieces in natural linen, velvet or muted patterned chairs.

On a wall, Gargoyle gives a room a calm, cool grey presence with real depth.

Zoffany 2026 Paint Paint

Specification

Brand: Zoffany
Colour: #5F5F61
Colour family: 2026 Paint
Finish: Acrylic Eggshell, Elite Emulsion, True Matt
Product type: Paint

Specification as published by Zoffany. We will confirm the current details with them before you order.

Order it with the cloth

A pot comes off the same order as the fabric, so the wall and the chair in front of it are chosen together. The making is ours: cut, sewn and fitted in our own Heybridge workshop, with Simon over every stage.

Paper and paint for the same room

More from 2026 Paint

The same book, other colourways.

Quarter Empire Grey

2026 Paint

Reign Blue

2026 Paint

Half Empire Grey

2026 Paint

Hessian Green

2026 Paint

Sheep Skin

2026 Paint

Green Almond

2026 Paint

Dusk

2026 Paint

Double Ice Floes

2026 Paint

Velvet Blue

2026 Paint

Spanish Olive

2026 Paint

a flat tile of warm pale grey-beige paint

Quarter Harbour Grey

2026 Paint

a flat tile of warm creamy off-white paint

Perfect White

2026 Paint

See the whole collection

Pairs well with

Gargoyle is a wall colour, so these are the cloths that sit against it: one of them on the curtains, the paint behind. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.