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

Settled, side by side

Inventive Orange

Sherwin-Williams · SW 6633

Faded Terracotta

Farrow & Ball · No. CC8

42.41
LRV
#E89D6F
Hex
#DCB594
232 · 157 · 111
RGB
220 · 181 · 148
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Clear apricot orange; warm yellow-red base
Undertone
Sun-bleached clay; peach and sand with the red worn off
Orange
Family
Orange
Orange
Collection
California Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Both belong to the orange family.

How they read

In their own words

Inventive Orange is a mid-light, clear apricot — a genuine orange rather than a terracotta, with a warm yellow-red base. At LRV 42 it is bright enough to lift a room and saturated enough to read as a deliberate choice.

Faded 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.

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