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Settled, side by side

Deep Secret

Benjamin Moore · CSP-625

White Dove

Benjamin Moore · OC-17

11.64
LRV
83.16
White Dove is 71.5 points lighter
#525A60
Hex
#EFEEE5
82 · 90 · 96
RGB
239 · 238 · 229
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Deep Secret is cool; White Dove is warm.
Charcoal grey leaning blue; a slate rather than a soot
Undertone
Soft warm white with a gray-green base that resists yellowing
Gray
Family
White
Color Stories
Collection
Off-White Collection

In real rooms

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Deep Secret

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The difference

Read from the numbers

White Dove is the lighter of the two at LRV 83.16, 71.5 points above Deep Secret at LRV 11.64. Deep Secret leans cool where White Dove reads warm. Deep Secret is a gray, White Dove a white. For a whole room, White Dove 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.

White Dove (OC-17) is Benjamin Moore's most-specified soft white — warm, but with a subtle gray-green base that keeps it from going yellow. At LRV 83 it's bright enough to act as a white on walls and trim, yet soft enough to never feel stark.

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