Owens Corning Shingle Colors: Names and How Each One Looks

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These are the Owens Corning shingle color names we found on its TruDefinition Duration and Duration FLEX pages, with how Owens Corning describes each one and the houses it shows them on. Pick a direction, then try a light, medium or dark roof on a photo of your own house.

Roof shingle colors

Before and after examples

Example images are AI-generated: both the sample houses and their redesigns. Results change from render to render, so treat them as concepts, not exact product matches.

AI-drawn stand-in of a white vinyl-sided story-and-a-half house with a worn brown asphalt shingle roof with moss streaks — Example 1 (prompt 1 below; the before is an AI-drawn stand-in house, not a real photo): the worn brown roof became a near-black architectural shingle roof with a light texture. The white siding, the trim, the black door, the windows, the roofline and the lawn stayed. What it got wrong: we asked for new shingles, but a green streak of moss is still drawn running down the roof by the dormer. The near-black is the model's guess at the words in the prompt. It is not Onyx Black or any other Owens Corning color. We ran the request once.

The same house with a near-black textured shingle roof; the white siding, trim, black door, windows and lawn kept — Example 1 (prompt 1 below; the before is an AI-drawn stand-in house, not a real photo): the worn brown roof became a near-black architectural shingle roof with a light texture. The white siding, the trim, the black door, the windows, the roofline and the lawn stayed. What it got wrong: we asked for new shingles, but a green streak of moss is still drawn running down the roof by the dormer. The near-black is the model's guess at the words in the prompt. It is not Onyx Black or any other Owens Corning color. We ran the request once.

AI-drawn stand-in of a one-story tan brick ranch house with two white garage doors, white trim, a gray-green shingle roof — Example 2 (prompt 2 below; the before is an AI-drawn stand-in house, not a real photo): the gray-green roof became a warm gray-brown blend, close to a taupe. The tan brick, the white trim, both garage doors, the windows, the chimney and the lawn stayed, and we did not spot other changes, though the picture looks a little softer in places. We used plain words, not a color name, so this is not Driftwood. Owens Corning describes its Driftwood as a medium brown made from green, gray and brown granules, and our roof reads grayer than that. We ran the request once.

The same house with a warm gray-brown shingle roof; the tan brick, white trim, garage doors, windows and lawn kept — Example 2 (prompt 2 below; the before is an AI-drawn stand-in house, not a real photo): the gray-green roof became a warm gray-brown blend, close to a taupe. The tan brick, the white trim, both garage doors, the windows, the chimney and the lawn stayed, and we did not spot other changes, though the picture looks a little softer in places. We used plain words, not a color name, so this is not Driftwood. Owens Corning describes its Driftwood as a medium brown made from green, gray and brown granules, and our roof reads grayer than that. We ran the request once.

Not affiliated with Owens Corning. Colours are AI approximations; check real samples before you buy.

How to use this list

These are names and descriptions, not pictures of the product. Each color below is listed with the words Owens Corning uses for it on its own product pages, which describe the overall color and the granules that make it up. We show no product photos.

Our two example roofs are not Owens Corning colors. They were made by an AI model from plain color words. They help you judge a light, medium or dark roof on a house, not a named shingle. We did not find sales data on which colors sell most, so this list is not a ranking.

TruDefinition Duration colors

Owens Corning's TruDefinition Duration page lists 16 colors. The descriptions are paraphrased from the color text on that page, and the house column is from captions on the same page's photo gallery. The page also has a porch photo for each color, always with white siding and a wood-grain door with white columns, so we leave that out below.

Color name	What it looks like, per Owens Corning	Houses Owens Corning shows it on
Onyx Black	Black, from dark gray and black granules.	A worn white brick house.
Estate Gray	Medium gray, from light, medium and dark greenish gray granules.	A house with white siding; a house with red brick and gray siding.
Sierra Gray	Light gray, from light gray, white and black granules.	None in the gallery captions we read.
Williamsburg Gray	Medium-dark gray, per the color text; the photo captions call it a medium gray with a brown tab.	Beige painted brick; light brown brick; whitewashed brick; a blue house with white trim; greenish gray siding with white trim and black shutters.
Slatestone Gray	Medium blue-gray, from gray, light gray, blue and black granules.	White siding with dark blue shutters.
Colonial Slate	Gray, from dark gray, light gray and red granules.	A red brick house.
Sand Castle	Gray, from dark gray, light gray and red granules (the page uses the same wording as for Colonial Slate).	Eggshell white siding and trim with an off-white brick garage.
Peppercorn	Tan, from dark gray, tan, brown and light gray granules.	A red brick house; a house with white siding, whitewashed brick and light stone.
Driftwood	Medium brown, from green, gray and brown granules.	Smooth yellow stucco with white trim; beige-yellow stucco; a brick mansion with a quarried stone portico; gray stone on the front with red brick on the side.
Desert Rose	Brown, from dark brown, light brown, blue and red granules.	A house with tan siding.
Brownwood	Brown, from dark brown, light brown, black and golden tan granules; also called a dark warm brown with black, brown and orange granules.	A house with beige siding.
Teak	Dark brown, from golden tan, warm brown and gray granules.	Cream siding with a brick front.
Harbor Blue	Blue, from light blue, dark blue and black granules.	None in the gallery captions we read.
Chateau Green	Green, from green, dark gray and black granules.	A white brick house.
Midnight Plum	Purple, from dark gray, black, blue and red granules. A 2022 Roofing Contractor article called it gray with purple undertones.	Smoky green siding with white trim and a red brick entrance; red brick with white trim, black shutters and pale yellow accents.
Terra Cotta	Bright red-orange, from orange, red and brown granules.	A villa-style house.

Duration FLEX colors

The Duration FLEX page lists nine colors: Black Sable, Brownwood, Driftwood, Estate Gray, Onyx Black, Sand Dune, Storm Cloud, Summer Harvest and Teak. For the ones not in the table above, Owens Corning describes Black Sable as black with a dark brown undertone, from brown, black, taupe and dark gray granules; Sand Dune as tan and light brown; Storm Cloud as a dark greenish gray; and Summer Harvest as golden tan and brown. Its FLEX Onyx Black uses gray, dark gray and black granules, a slightly different mix from the Duration version.

Names you may see elsewhere

Roofer blogs list some names we did not see on the two Owens Corning pages we opened. Able Roofing lists Desert Tan and Amber, and FoxHaven Roofing Group lists Merlot and Aged Cedar. These may belong to other lines or regions, or may no longer be sold, so ask your supplier. The roofer pages call some colors popular but give no sales data.

Light, medium or dark roof?

FoxHaven Roofing Group, a roofer, suggests Onyx Black for lighter siding and Driftwood for brown, beige or natural stone siding. Owens Corning's gallery shows grays with white siding and with brick, and browns with beige, cream and tan. Start with what you cannot change, the brick, the stone and the siding, then pick the roof. For more on this step, see roof and siding color combinations, exterior house colors with a black roof, with a gray roof and with a brown roof.

How to check a color before you order

Narrow it down online, then see the color for real. Owens Corning says screens vary and suggests asking for a real shingle sample.
Look at an installed roof. Owens Corning suggests judging the color on an actual roof with a pitch close to yours. It also sells printed 21 by 24 inch color posters.
Check availability. The Duration page checks your location and says when a product is not sold there, so ask a local supplier.
Preview the depth on your house. Upload a photo in the tool at the top of this page, or use the roof visualizer, to compare a light, medium and dark roof before you pick a named color.

Two examples, and what the AI changed

The examples were run directly on an image model, not through the tool above, so your results will look different. We ran each request once and show that run. The live tool may use a different model and settings from the ones we used (we used 4 processing steps), so a render from the tool may look rougher or different. The roof colors are the model's reading of plain color words, not Owens Corning colors.

Brown to near-black. Example 1 replaces a worn brown roof on a white house and keeps the siding, trim and door. It left a streak of moss on the new roof.
Gray-green to gray-brown. Example 2 replaces the roof on a tan brick ranch and keeps the brick and garage doors. The new roof reads grayer than a medium brown.

The exact prompts behind the examples

These are the edit prompts, word for word. Change the color words and the list of what stays to suit your house.

Prompt 1: near-black architectural shingles

Replace only the roof shingles with new near-black architectural asphalt shingles with a subtle dimensional texture. Keep the white siding, the trim, the black door, the windows, the roofline, the lawn, the plants, the sky and the camera angle exactly the same

Prompt 2: weathered gray-brown shingles

Replace only the roof shingles with new architectural asphalt shingles in a weathered gray-brown wood-tone blend. Keep the tan brick, the white trim, the garage door, the windows, the roofline, the lawn, the plants, the sky and the camera angle exactly the same

Sources

All six pages were opened and paraphrased; none of their images are used. Color names and descriptions are as shown on these pages. Dates are as shown on each page.

Owens Corning, "TruDefinition Duration Shingles" page, including its color descriptions and photo gallery captions: https://www.owenscorning.com/en-us/roofing/shingles/trudefinition-duration. Owens Corning makes and sells the shingles.
Owens Corning, "TruDefinition Duration FLEX Shingles" page: https://www.owenscorning.com/en-us/roofing/shingles/trudefinition-duration-flex.
Able Roofing, most popular Owens Corning colors blog post: https://www.ableroof.com/blog/most-popular-owens-corning-colors. No date shown. Able Roofing sells roofing work.
FoxHaven Roofing Group, Owens Corning shingle colors blog post, May 22, 2025: https://foxhavenroof.com/blog/owens-corning-shingle-colors/. FoxHaven sells roofing work.
Roofing Contractor, "Owens Corning Releases Updated Colors, New Palette Hues", October 21, 2022: https://roofingcontractor.com/articles/97556-owens-corning-releases-updated-colors-new-palette-hues.
Roofing Magazine, "Four new colors added to shingle line", October 11, 2022: https://roofingmagazine.com/four-new-colors-added-to-shingle-line/.

Who this is for

Owners getting a new roof who have an Owens Corning color list from a roofer and want to know what the names mean, and who want to see a lighter or darker roof on their own house before they look at real samples.

More roof color ideas

See roof shingle colors, metal roof colors, roof and siding color combinations, white house with black trim, gutter colors and the roof visualizer.

Frequently asked questions

What shingle colors does Owens Corning make?

On the TruDefinition Duration page we opened, Owens Corning lists Brownwood, Chateau Green, Colonial Slate, Desert Rose, Driftwood, Estate Gray, Harbor Blue, Midnight Plum, Onyx Black, Peppercorn, Sand Castle, Sierra Gray, Slatestone Gray, Teak, Terra Cotta and Williamsburg Gray. Its Duration FLEX page lists Black Sable, Brownwood, Driftwood, Estate Gray, Onyx Black, Sand Dune, Storm Cloud, Summer Harvest and Teak. The lineup changes over time and the page checks availability by location, so confirm with a local supplier.

What does Onyx Black look like?

Owens Corning describes TruDefinition Duration Onyx Black as an overall black made from a mix of dark gray and black granules. Its Duration FLEX listing describes Onyx Black as black from gray, dark gray and black granules. One of its gallery photos shows Onyx Black on a worn white brick house.

Is Driftwood brown or gray?

Owens Corning describes Driftwood as an overall medium brown made from green, gray and brown granules. Able Roofing, a roofer, calls it a mix of gray and brown tones, and FoxHaven Roofing Group calls it an earthy brown. Look at a real sample in daylight, because a blend like this can read differently on your roof.

Which Owens Corning color goes with my house?

The pages we read show examples, not rules. Owens Corning's own gallery shows Estate Gray with white siding, Colonial Slate with red brick, Teak with cream siding and brick, and Slatestone Gray with white siding and dark blue shutters. FoxHaven Roofing Group suggests Onyx Black for lighter siding and Driftwood for brown, beige or natural stone siding. Start from what you will not change, such as brick or stone.

Are the roofs in the pictures real Owens Corning colors?

No. The two examples were made by an AI model from plain color words, such as near-black and gray-brown. They are not Owens Corning products and do not match any named color. Not affiliated with Owens Corning. Colours are AI approximations; check real samples before you buy.

How should I check a shingle color before I buy?

Owens Corning says screens vary, so it suggests asking for a real shingle sample, judging the color on an actual roof with a pitch close to yours before you decide. Your roofing contractor or supplier can give you a sample.

Can I see a new roof color on my own house?

Yes. Upload a photo of your house in the tool at the top of this page, describe the roof color in plain words and list what must stay the same. Use it to compare light, medium and dark roofs, then check real samples.

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