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Settled, side by side

Hushed Auburn

Sherwin-Williams · SW 9080

Dead Salmon

Farrow & Ball · No. 28

26.38
LRV
#A8857A
Hex
#B09B8C
168 · 133 · 122
RGB
176 · 155 · 140
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Dusky clay pink with red undertones
Undertone
Muddy pink-beige; a rose that has faded into taupe
Red
Family
Pink
Sherwin-Williams
Collection
Colour Card

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The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Hushed Auburn is a red, Dead Salmon a pink.

How they read

In their own words

Hushed Auburn SW 9080 is a muted red-family colour from Sherwin-Williams with an LRV of 26.38. Livingetc describes it as a dusky pink with red undertones that behaves like a clay-like neutral.

Dead Salmon takes its name from an eighteenth-century decorating bill at Kedleston Hall, where 'dead' meant matte rather than deceased. The color is a muddy pink-beige — salmon left in the sun until only the memory of pink remains. At LRV 35 it is a real mid-tone with unusual depth for a neutral.

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