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

Settled, side by side

Costes

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

Monet

Benjamin Moore · 1243

LRV
39.98
#B07A62
Hex
#BFA4A0
176 · 122 · 98
RGB
191 · 164 · 160
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Dusty rose-terracotta; clay with a pink heart
Undertone
Dusty mauve-pink over beige; a rose that has aged into lilac
Orange
Family
Pink
Roman Clay
Collection
Classics Color Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Costes is a orange, Monet a pink.

How they read

In their own words

Costes 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.

Monet is a dusty, mauve-leaning pink with a beige base — a rose that has softened into something closer to lilac. At LRV 40 it is a real mid-tone, dark enough to feel enveloping in a small room and light enough to keep a powder room from going gloomy.

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