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

Settled, side by side

Faded Terracotta

Farrow & Ball · No. CC8

Inventive Orange

Sherwin-Williams · SW 6633

LRV
42.41
#DCB594
Hex
#E89D6F
220 · 181 · 148
RGB
232 · 157 · 111
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Sun-bleached clay; peach and sand with the red worn off
Undertone
Clear apricot orange; warm yellow-red base
Orange
Family
Orange
California Collection
Collection
Orange

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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.

Inventive Orange is a mid-light, clear apricot — a genuine orange rather than a terracotta, with a warm yellow-red base. At LRV 42 it is bright enough to lift a room and saturated enough to read as a deliberate choice.

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