The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Dead Salmon
Farrow & Ball · No. 28
Not dead, just resting
Silver Satin
Benjamin Moore · OC-26
The off-white that knows when to disappear
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersSilver Satin is the lighter of the two at LRV 75.3, 40.3 points above Dead Salmon at LRV 35. Both read warm. Dead Salmon is a neutrals, Silver Satin a whites. For a whole room, Silver Satin 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.
Silver Satin is the quiet professional of the off-white world — soft, low-chroma, and just warm enough to never read as stark. In a north-facing room it settles into a calm greige; in afternoon sun it lifts to a clean, milky white without ever turning yellow.