The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Chantilly Lace

Benjamin Moore · OC-65

The crispest, cleanest white in the room

Late Wheat

Benjamin Moore · CC-240

Straw, not butter

90.04
LRV
47.41
Chantilly Lace is 42.6 points lighter
#F4F6F1
Hex
#CAB88C
244 · 246 · 241
RGB
202 · 184 · 140
Cool-neutral
Warmth
Warm
Chantilly Lace is cool-neutral; Late Wheat is warm.
Near-neutral white with the faintest cool edge
Undertone
Golden straw with a green edge; a muted, dusty yellow-tan
Whites
Family
Yellows
Off-White Collection
Collection
Designer Classics

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Chantilly Lace is the lighter of the two at LRV 90.04, 42.6 points above Late Wheat at LRV 47.41. Chantilly Lace leans cool-neutral where Late Wheat reads warm. Chantilly Lace is a whites, Late Wheat a yellows. For a whole room, Chantilly Lace is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Late Wheat is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Chantilly Lace (OC-65) is the brightest, crispest white in Benjamin Moore's lineup, with an LRV around 90 and an almost-neutral undertone that carries only the faintest cool edge. It reads as a clean, pure white in nearly any light.

Late Wheat is a muted golden yellow with enough tan and green in it to stay quiet — the color of a field in September rather than a lemon. At LRV 47 it sits mid-tone, so on cabinetry it reads as a real color without ever shouting, and it has none of the acidity that makes most yellows hard to live with.

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