The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Grant Beige
Benjamin Moore · HC-83
Greige, settled and grown-up
Costes
Portola Paints · Roman Clay
Plaster the color of a sunset in Marrakech
In real rooms
Every room, each colorGrant Beige
1 roomCostes
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Grant Beige is a neutrals, Costes a oranges.
How they read
In their own wordsGrant Beige balances beige and grey in nearly equal measure — the textbook greige. A slight yellow-gold undertone adds warmth, while the grey content keeps it from ever reading sweet or sandy. It is the safe, sophisticated neutral that anchors a whole-home palette.
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.