The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Creekbed
Benjamin Moore · 1006
The taupe that makes marble look expensive
Pink Cloud
Benjamin Moore · 887
Pink, but barely
In real rooms
Every room, each colorCreekbed
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersPink Cloud is the lighter of the two at LRV 80.1, 46.8 points above Creekbed at LRV 33.34. Both read warm. Creekbed is a neutrals, Pink Cloud a pinks. For a whole room, Pink Cloud 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.
Pink Cloud is the lightest pink in the library — at LRV 80 it is closer to a tinted white than a color, a peach-blush so faint it reads as warmth rather than pink until you see it beside a true white. It is gentle, luminous and impossible to overdo.