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

Settled, side by side

Faded Terracotta

Farrow & Ball · No. CC8

Costes

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

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Hex
#B07A62
220 · 181 · 148
RGB
176 · 122 · 98
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Sun-bleached clay; peach and sand with the red worn off
Undertone
Dusty rose-terracotta; clay with a pink heart
Orange
Family
Orange
California Collection
Collection
Roman Clay

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Both belong to the orange family.

How they read

In their own words

Faded Terracotta is exactly what the name promises: a clay orange that has been left in the light until the red drained out, leaving a soft, sandy peach. It comes from Farrow & Ball's California Collection, made with Kelly Wearstler, and it carries that West Coast ease — warm, dusty, never brash.

Costes is a Portola Roman Clay — a hand-applied plaster finish rather than a paint — in a dusty rose-terracotta. Because Roman Clay is troweled on, the color is never flat: it moves between pale pink and deep clay across a single wall, and the surface has a soft, suede-like depth that photographs like stone.

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