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.
Clay
Little Greene · No. 39
Deep Secret
Benjamin Moore · CSP-625
LRV
11.64
#D4C59C
Hex
#525A60
212 · 197 · 156
RGB
82 · 90 · 96
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Clay is warm; Deep Secret is cool.
Warm mid-stone neutral with ochre
Undertone
Charcoal grey leaning blue; a slate rather than a soot
Beige
Family
Gray
Colours of England
Collection
Color Stories
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersClay leans warm where Deep Secret reads cool. Clay is a beige, Deep Secret a gray.
How they read
In their own wordsClay 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.
Deep Secret is a dark charcoal grey with a clear blue undertone — Benjamin Moore files it in the blue family and calls it 'your new favorite gray'. It comes from the Color Stories collection, whose full-spectrum formulas shift more with the light than standard paints.