Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Clay

Little Greene · No. 39

Dead Salmon

Farrow & Ball · No. 28

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Hex
#B09B8C
212 · 197 · 156
RGB
176 · 155 · 140
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Warm mid-stone neutral with ochre
Undertone
Muddy pink-beige; a rose that has faded into taupe
Beige
Family
Pink
Colours of England
Collection
Colour Card

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Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Clay is a beige, Dead Salmon a pink.

How they read

In their own words

Clay is a Little Greene mid-stone neutral with more ochre than its predecessors — warm, sandy and quietly elegant. It is the colour of dried river clay: not quite beige, not quite yellow.

Dead Salmon takes its name from an eighteenth-century decorating bill at Kedleston Hall, where 'dead' meant matte rather than deceased. The color is a muddy pink-beige — salmon left in the sun until only the memory of pink remains. At LRV 35 it is a real mid-tone with unusual depth for a neutral.

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