The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Dead Salmon
Farrow & Ball · No. 28
Not dead, just resting
Maritime White
Benjamin Moore · 963
The cream that behaves
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersMaritime White is the lighter of the two at LRV 71.6, 36.6 points above Dead Salmon at LRV 35. Both read warm. Dead Salmon is a neutrals, Maritime White a whites. For a whole room, Maritime White 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.
Maritime White is a warm, creamy off-white with a green-grey base that stops it from tipping into yellow. At LRV 72 it is soft rather than bright — an ivory, not a white — and in a bedroom it makes everything feel calmer and slightly older, in the best way.