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Settled, side by side
Faded Terracotta
Farrow & Ball · No. CC8
Terracotta after a decade in the sun
Townsend Harbor Brown
Benjamin Moore · HC-64
Burgundy with the lights off
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Faded Terracotta is a oranges, Townsend Harbor Brown a neutrals.
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.
Townsend Harbor Brown is a near-black with a secret: a warm red undertone that reveals itself as burgundy the moment any light touches it. With an LRV of just 7.13 it absorbs almost everything, which is exactly why it makes such a rich, enveloping backdrop for moody rooms, cabinetry and front doors.
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