The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Creekbed
Benjamin Moore · 1006
The taupe that makes marble look expensive
Late Wheat
Benjamin Moore · CC-240
Straw, not butter
In real rooms
Every room, each colorCreekbed
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersLate Wheat is the lighter of the two at LRV 47.41, 14.1 points above Creekbed at LRV 33.34. Both read warm. Creekbed is a neutrals, Late Wheat a yellows. For a whole room, Late Wheat 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.
Late Wheat is a muted golden yellow with enough tan and green in it to stay quiet — the color of a field in September rather than a lemon. At LRV 47 it sits mid-tone, so on cabinetry it reads as a real color without ever shouting, and it has none of the acidity that makes most yellows hard to live with.