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

Settled, side by side

Clay

Little Greene · No. 39

Tundra

Benjamin Moore · 2133-70

LRV
77.07
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Hex
#E2E4E3
212 · 197 · 156
RGB
226 · 228 · 227
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Clay is warm; Tundra is cool.
Warm mid-stone neutral with ochre
Undertone
Barely-there grey with a whisper of green-blue; a white with the warmth turned down
Beige
Family
White
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Collection
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The difference

Read from the numbers

Clay leans warm where Tundra reads cool. Clay is a beige, Tundra a white.

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.

Tundra is the off-white for people who find most whites too creamy. Its LRV of 77 puts it in soft-white territory, but the base is a cool, faintly green-blue grey, so it reads clean and quiet rather than warm. On plaster mouldings and in rooms with a lot of daylight it looks like fresh air.

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