The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Bride to Be
Benjamin Moore · 1009
The pink that nobody notices is pink
Dead Salmon
Farrow & Ball · No. 28
Not dead, just resting
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBride to Be is the lighter of the two at LRV 70.69, 35.7 points above Dead Salmon at LRV 35. Both read warm. Bride to Be is a pinks, Dead Salmon a neutrals. For a whole room, Bride to Be is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Dead Salmon 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.
Dead Salmon takes its name from an eighteenth-century decorating bill at Kedleston Hall, where 'dead' meant matte rather than deceased. The color is a muddy pink-beige — salmon left in the sun until only the memory of pink remains. At LRV 35 it is a real mid-tone with unusual depth for a neutral.