Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
#77866A
Hex
#F4F0E7
119 · 134 · 106
RGB
244 · 240 · 231
Neutral
Warmth
Warm
Calke Green is neutral; Le Cygne is warm.
Muted mid-green with gray and a little yellow; a country-house green
Undertone
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Green
Family
White
Colour Card
Collection
Ressource Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCalke Green leans neutral where Le Cygne reads warm. Calke Green is a green, Le Cygne a white.
How they read
In their own wordsCalke Green takes its name from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, and it has the settled, slightly faded quality of a color that has been on a wall for two hundred years. It is a mid-tone green with enough grey to stay calm and enough yellow to stay warm — the green of gardens rather than forests.
Le Cygne — the swan — is a warm, matte ivory from the French house Ressource. It has the chalky, light-absorbing quality of old lime plaster, which is why it looks so at home on Haussmann paneling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.