Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Dead Salmon

Farrow & Ball · No. 28

Tundra

Benjamin Moore · 2133-70

LRV
77.07
#B09B8C
Hex
#E2E4E3
176 · 155 · 140
RGB
226 · 228 · 227
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Dead Salmon is warm; Tundra is cool.
Muddy pink-beige; a rose that has faded into taupe
Undertone
Barely-there grey with a whisper of green-blue; a white with the warmth turned down
Pink
Family
White
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In real rooms

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The difference

Read from the numbers

Dead Salmon leans warm where Tundra reads cool. Dead Salmon is a pink, Tundra a white.

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.

Tundra is the off-white for people who find most whites too creamy. Its LRV of 77 puts it in soft-white territory, but the base is a cool, faintly green-blue grey, so it reads clean and quiet rather than warm. On plaster mouldings and in rooms with a lot of daylight it looks like fresh air.

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