The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Dead Salmon
Farrow & Ball · No. 28
Not dead, just resting
Groundhog Day
Benjamin Moore · 1166
A soft plaster blush
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersGroundhog Day is the lighter of the two at LRV 51.2, 16.2 points above Dead Salmon at LRV 35. Both read warm. Dead Salmon 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 Dead Salmon is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsDead Salmon takes its name from an eighteenth-century decorating bill at Kedleston Hall, where 'dead' meant matte rather than deceased. The color is a muddy pink-beige — salmon left in the sun until only the memory of pink remains. At LRV 35 it is a real mid-tone with unusual depth for a neutral.
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.