The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Creekbed
Benjamin Moore · 1006
The taupe that makes marble look expensive
Tundra
Benjamin Moore · 2133-70
A white that keeps its cool
In real rooms
Every room, each colorCreekbed
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersTundra is the lighter of the two at LRV 77.07, 43.7 points above Creekbed at LRV 33.34. Creekbed leans warm where Tundra reads cool. Creekbed is a neutrals, Tundra a whites. For a whole room, Tundra 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.
Tundra is the off-white for people who find most whites too creamy. Its LRV of 77 puts it in soft-white territory, but the base is a cool, faintly green-blue grey, so it reads clean and quiet rather than warm. On plaster mouldings and in rooms with a lot of daylight it looks like fresh air.