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
Tundra
Benjamin Moore · 2133-70
LRV
77.07
#77866A
Hex
#E2E4E3
119 · 134 · 106
RGB
226 · 228 · 227
Neutral
Warmth
Cool
Calke Green is neutral; Tundra is cool.
Muted mid-green with gray and a little yellow; a country-house green
Undertone
Barely-there grey with a whisper of green-blue; a white with the warmth turned down
Green
Family
White
Colour Card
Collection
Color Preview
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCalke Green leans neutral where Tundra reads cool. Calke Green is a green, Tundra 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.
Tundra is the off-white for people who find most whites too creamy. Its LRV of 77 puts it in soft-white territory, but the base is a cool, faintly green-blue grey, so it reads clean and quiet rather than warm. On plaster mouldings and in rooms with a lot of daylight it looks like fresh air.