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Settled, side by side

Dead Salmon

Farrow & Ball · No. 28

Southwest Pottery

Benjamin Moore · 048

LRV
16.56
#B09B8C
Hex
#975F57
176 · 155 · 140
RGB
151 · 95 · 87
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Muddy pink-beige; a rose that has faded into taupe
Undertone
Brown and red tones of kiln-fired clay; some see a hint of violet
Pink
Family
Red
Colour Card
Collection
Benjamin Moore Classics

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Dead Salmon is a pink, Southwest Pottery 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.

Southwest Pottery 048 is a deep clay red from Benjamin Moore's Classics collection, described by the brand as "a nuanced hue that captures the brown and red tones of kiln-fired clay". Its LRV is 16.56, so it is a properly deep colour.

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