Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Blackened

Farrow & Ball · No. 2011

Silver Satin

Benjamin Moore · OC-26

LRV
74.9
#DBDBDA
Hex
#E4E1D9
219 · 219 · 218
RGB
228 · 225 · 217
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Blackened is cool; Silver Satin is warm.
Farrow & Ball's coolest white, with a hint of grey from lamp black pigment
Undertone
Warm grey-beige, a faint violet that rarely flashes green
White
Family
White
Colour Card
Collection
Off-White Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Blackened leans cool where Silver Satin reads warm. Both belong to the white family.

How they read

In their own words

Blackened is, in Farrow & Ball's own words, its coolest white, with a hint of grey, historically made with the addition of lamp black pigment. It belongs to the brand's group of Architectural Neutrals, the whites meant for minimal and industrial schemes.

Silver Satin is the quiet professional of the off-white world — soft, low-chroma, and just warm enough to never read as stark. In a north-facing room it settles into a calm greige; in afternoon sun it lifts to a clean, milky white without ever turning yellow.

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