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Settled, side by side

Alabaster

Sherwin-Williams · SW 7008

Pashmina

Benjamin Moore · AF-100

82.215
LRV
44.2
Alabaster is 38 points lighter
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Hex
#BBB2A1
237 · 234 · 224
RGB
187 · 178 · 161
Warm
Warmth
Neutral
Alabaster is warm; Pashmina is neutral.
Warm creamy white with a faint beige-yellow base
Undertone
Balanced taupe — neither warm nor cool, neither light nor dark
White
Family
Beige
Collection
Affinity

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Alabaster is the lighter of the two at LRV 82.215, 38 points above Pashmina at LRV 44.2. Alabaster leans warm where Pashmina reads neutral. Alabaster is a white, Pashmina a beige. For a whole room, Alabaster is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Pashmina is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Alabaster (SW 7008) is a soft, creamy white with a faint beige-yellow undertone — warm enough to feel inviting, clean enough to still read as white. At LRV 82 it brightens a room without the starkness of a true white.

Pashmina is Benjamin Moore's most even-handed taupe: the brand describes it as 'perfectly balanced between warm and cool, light and dark'. It belongs to the Affinity collection, designed so that every colour in it harmonises with every other.

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