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Settled, side by side

Dead Salmon

Farrow & Ball · No. 28

Inventive Orange

Sherwin-Williams · SW 6633

LRV
42.41
#B09B8C
Hex
#E89D6F
176 · 155 · 140
RGB
232 · 157 · 111
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Muddy pink-beige; a rose that has faded into taupe
Undertone
Clear apricot orange; warm yellow-red base
Pink
Family
Orange
Colour Card
Collection
Orange

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Dead Salmon is a pink, Inventive Orange a orange.

How they read

In their own words

Dead 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.

Inventive Orange is a mid-light, clear apricot — a genuine orange rather than a terracotta, with a warm yellow-red base. At LRV 42 it is bright enough to lift a room and saturated enough to read as a deliberate choice.

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