The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Faded Terracotta

Farrow & Ball · No. CC8

Terracotta after a decade in the sun

Savage Ground

Farrow & Ball · No. 213

Beige, but happy about it

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Hex
#D5C5A9
220 · 181 · 148
RGB
213 · 197 · 169
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Sun-bleached clay; peach and sand with the red worn off
Undertone
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Oranges
Family
Neutrals
California Collection
Collection
Archive Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

Faded Terracotta

4 rooms
All 4 rooms

Savage Ground

2 rooms
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
All 2 rooms

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Faded Terracotta is a oranges, Savage Ground a neutrals.

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.

Savage Ground is a warm, sandy beige from Farrow & Ball's archive — a yellow-leaning neutral that reads as sunlit rather than safe. It is the color of a stone floor in a Provençal kitchen, and it makes a room feel warmer without asking anyone to notice why.

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