Maritime White

Maritime White is a warm, creamy off-white with a green-grey base that stops it from tipping into yellow. At LRV 72 it is soft rather than bright — an ivory, not a white — and in a bedroom it makes everything feel calmer and slightly older, in the best way.

It flatters greens of every kind: a chartreuse painting, olive linens, a sage chair. In warm light it glows; in cool light it stays neutral instead of going grey, which is rarer than it sounds for a cream.