The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Creekbed
Benjamin Moore · 1006
The taupe that makes marble look expensive
Groundhog Day
Benjamin Moore · 1166
A soft plaster blush
In real rooms
Every room, each colorCreekbed
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersGroundhog Day is the lighter of the two at LRV 51.2, 17.9 points above Creekbed at LRV 33.34. Both read warm. Creekbed is a neutrals, Groundhog Day a pinks. For a whole room, Groundhog Day is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Creekbed is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsCreekbed is a true taupe — grey and brown balanced so evenly that it reads as neither, with a faint pink warmth underneath. At LRV 33 it is a mid-tone, dark enough to feel like a color and light enough to keep a small room from closing in. It is the shade of wet river stone.
A warm pink with just enough grey to keep it adult, Groundhog Day turns afternoon light the color of the inside of a shell. Drenched across walls and ceiling it reads like aged plaster; used on a single wall it warms a room without ever announcing itself as pink.