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Settled, side by side

Dead Salmon

Farrow & Ball · No. 28

Margaux

Color Atelier · Lime Paint

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Hex
#7B3D3B
176 · 155 · 140
RGB
123 · 61 · 59
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Muddy pink-beige; a rose that has faded into taupe
Undertone
Deep burgundy red; wine-dark in limewash
Pink
Family
Red
Colour Card
Collection
Lime Paint

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Dead Salmon is a pink, Margaux a red.

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.

Margaux is Color Atelier's bold, deep red — a burgundy with the depth of the Bordeaux it is named for. In lime paint the colour is never uniform: it pools darker in the corners and lifts to a dusty rose where the light hits.

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