The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Creekbed
Benjamin Moore · 1006
The taupe that makes marble look expensive
Maritime White
Benjamin Moore · 963
The cream that behaves
In real rooms
Every room, each colorCreekbed
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersMaritime White is the lighter of the two at LRV 71.6, 38.3 points above Creekbed at LRV 33.34. Both read warm. Creekbed is a neutrals, Maritime White a whites. For a whole room, Maritime White 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.
Maritime White is a warm, creamy off-white with a green-grey base that stops it from tipping into yellow. At LRV 72 it is soft rather than bright — an ivory, not a white — and in a bedroom it makes everything feel calmer and slightly older, in the best way.