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Settled, side by side

Costes

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

Poe

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

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Hex
#583C3C
176 · 122 · 98
RGB
88 · 60 · 60
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Dusty rose-terracotta; clay with a pink heart
Undertone
Deep plum
Orange
Family
Purple
Roman Clay
Collection
Roman Clay

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Costes is a orange, Poe a purple.

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.

Poe is a Roman Clay colour from Portola Paints, which describes it as a "deep plum". Portola says it was originally named Black Magic and was inspired by the writing of Edgar Allan Poe.

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