The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Extra White
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7006
Gallery white
Sudbury Yellow
Farrow & Ball · No. 51
The yellow from the staircase at Sudbury Hall
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersExtra White leans cool where Sudbury Yellow reads warm. Extra White is a whites, Sudbury Yellow a yellows.
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.
Sudbury Yellow is an ochre-gold named for the staircase at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire — a yellow with enough earth in it to feel historic rather than sunny. It is warm, saturated and surprisingly easy to live with, because the ochre keeps it from ever turning acid.