The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Faded Terracotta
Farrow & Ball · No. CC8
Terracotta after a decade in the sun
Monet
Benjamin Moore · 1243
Dusty rose in a Venetian mirror
LRV
39.98
#DCB594
Hex
#BFA4A0
220 · 181 · 148
RGB
191 · 164 · 160
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Sun-bleached clay; peach and sand with the red worn off
Undertone
Dusty mauve-pink over beige; a rose that has aged into lilac
Oranges
Family
Pinks
California Collection
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorMonet
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Faded Terracotta is a oranges, Monet a pinks.
How they read
In their own wordsFaded 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.
Monet is a dusty, mauve-leaning pink with a beige base — a rose that has softened into something closer to lilac. At LRV 40 it is a real mid-tone, dark enough to feel enveloping in a small room and light enough to keep a powder room from going gloomy.