The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Cascade White
Benjamin Moore · 2127-70
White with a weather forecast
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
The Paris apartment white
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCascade White leans cool where Le Cygne reads warm. Both belong to the whites family.
How they read
In their own wordsCascade White is a cool off-white with a blue-grey cast that is visible even on the chip. At LRV 74 it is bright enough to read as white across a room, but next to a warm white it is unmistakably tinted — the color of a cloud on a clear day. It is crisp, modern and a little Scandinavian.
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 panelling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.