The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Extra White
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7006
Gallery white
Moonlight
Benjamin Moore · 2020-60
The yellow that lights a room from inside
In real rooms
Every room, each colorMoonlight
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersExtra White is the lighter of the two at LRV 86, 2.6 points above Moonlight at LRV 83.37. Extra White leans cool where Moonlight reads warm. Extra White is a whites, Moonlight a yellows. For a whole room, Extra White is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Moonlight is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsExtra White is a bright, slightly cool white — the closest Sherwin-Williams gets to a gallery wall. At LRV 86 it is crisp and reflective, with a faint blue-grey lean that keeps it clean rather than creamy. It is the white for architecture: plaster reliefs, coffered ceilings, a bank of steel windows.
Moonlight — now sold by Benjamin Moore under the name Sicilian Lemon, same number 2020-60 — is a pale, clear butter yellow with an LRV of 83. It is light enough to behave like a tinted white in a bright room and cheerful enough to make a north-facing one feel as if the sun came out.