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Settled, side by side

Deep Secret

Benjamin Moore · CSP-625

Cascade White

Benjamin Moore · 2127-70

11.64
LRV
73.71
Cascade White is 62.1 points lighter
#525A60
Hex
#DDE2E3
82 · 90 · 96
RGB
221 · 226 · 227
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Charcoal grey leaning blue; a slate rather than a soot
Undertone
Off-white with a distinct blue-grey cast; a white that remembers the sky
Gray
Family
White
Color Stories
Collection
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The difference

Read from the numbers

Cascade White is the lighter of the two at LRV 73.71, 62.1 points above Deep Secret at LRV 11.64. Both read cool. Deep Secret is a gray, Cascade White a white. For a whole room, Cascade White is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Deep Secret is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Deep Secret is a dark charcoal grey with a clear blue undertone — Benjamin Moore files it in the blue family and calls it 'your new favorite gray'. It comes from the Color Stories collection, whose full-spectrum formulas shift more with the light than standard paints.

Cascade White is a cool off-white with a blue-grey cast that is visible even on the chip. At LRV 74 it is bright enough to read as white across a room, but next to a warm white it is unmistakably tinted — the color of a cloud on a clear day. It is crisp, modern and a little Scandinavian.

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