The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Bride to Be
Benjamin Moore · 1009
The pink that nobody notices is pink
Brinjal
Farrow & Ball · No. 222
Aubergine skin, not aubergine flesh
In real rooms
Every room, each colorBrinjal
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersBride to Be is the lighter of the two at LRV 70.69, 63.7 points above Brinjal at LRV 7. Both read warm. Bride to Be is a pinks, Brinjal a reds & purples. For a whole room, Bride to Be is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Brinjal is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsBride to Be is a whisper of pink folded into a warm off-white. At LRV 71 it is light enough to use as a whole-room neutral, and in most light it reads as a soft, flattering beige — the blush only shows when you put it next to a true white. It is the color of the inside of a shell.
Brinjal is the Hindi word for aubergine, and the color is exactly the skin of one: a deep, brown-based plum that reads almost black until light finds the purple in it. With an LRV around 7 it is a true dark, and it is one of the most flattering darks there is — warmer than navy, softer than black, richer than charcoal.