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.
Clarté Lunaire
Ressource · MET 08
Pelican Gray
Benjamin Moore · 1612
LRV
58.58
#B9B8B4
Hex
#C6CBCC
185 · 184 · 180
RGB
198 · 203 · 204
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Silvery lunar sheen; pale metallic grey that shifts with the light
Undertone
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
White
Family
Gray
Peinture Métallisée
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorPelican Gray
The difference
Read from the numbersBoth read cool. Clarté Lunaire is a white, Pelican Gray a gray.
How they read
In their own wordsClarté Lunaire — 'moonlight' — is shade MET 08 in Ressource's twelve-colour metallic collection: a pale, silvery finish that catches and returns light like brushed pewter. Berlin designer Gisbert Pöppler used it to give a sitting room a soft, lunar glow.
Pelican Gray is a light, silvery grey with a clear blue lean — cooler than the greiges that dominated the last decade, and all the better for it. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to feel deliberate. It is the grey of a slate roof after rain.