The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Groundhog Day
Benjamin Moore · 1166
A soft plaster blush
Brinjal
Farrow & Ball · No. 222
Aubergine skin, not aubergine flesh
In real rooms
Every room, each colorBrinjal
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersGroundhog Day is the lighter of the two at LRV 51.2, 44.2 points above Brinjal at LRV 7. Both read warm. Groundhog Day is a pinks, Brinjal a reds & purples. For a whole room, Groundhog Day is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Brinjal is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsA warm pink with just enough grey to keep it adult, Groundhog Day turns afternoon light the color of the inside of a shell. Drenched across walls and ceiling it reads like aged plaster; used on a single wall it warms a room without ever announcing itself as pink.
Brinjal is the Hindi word for aubergine, and the color is exactly the skin of one: a deep, brown-based plum that reads almost black until light finds the purple in it. With an LRV around 7 it is a true dark, and it is one of the most flattering darks there is — warmer than navy, softer than black, richer than charcoal.