Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Groundhog Day

Benjamin Moore · 1166

Brinjal

Farrow & Ball · No. 222

51.2
LRV
#D8BAA5
Hex
#5A4348
216 · 186 · 165
RGB
90 · 67 · 72
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Warm peach with enough grey to stay grown-up
Undertone
Aubergine — plum over brown, with the red held back
Pink
Family
Purple
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In real rooms

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The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Groundhog Day is a pink, Brinjal a purple.

How they read

In their own words

A 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.

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