The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Costes
Portola Paints · Roman Clay
Plaster the color of a sunset in Marrakech
Honey Hut
Benjamin Moore · 2102-60
Blush with a pulse
In real rooms
Every room, each colorCostes
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Costes is a oranges, Honey Hut a pinks.
How they read
In their own wordsCostes is a Portola Roman Clay — a hand-applied plaster finish rather than a paint — in a dusty rose-terracotta. Because Roman Clay is troweled on, the color is never flat: it moves between pale pink and deep clay across a single wall, and the surface has a soft, suede-like depth that photographs like stone.
Honey Hut is a pale dusty pink with enough grey-beige in it to stay sophisticated. At LRV 62 it is light and airy, but it is unmistakably pink — more so than Bride to Be, less so than Pink Cloud. It has the softness of a powder puff and none of the sugar.