Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Kittiwake
Farrow & Ball · No. 307
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
LRV
14.74
#98ACBA
Hex
#3C6C7A
152 · 172 · 186
RGB
60 · 108 · 122
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Clean cool blue with a touch of black; Farrow & Ball says it stays truly blue in all lights
Undertone
Teal — a blue that has swallowed some green; gray keeps it from turning tropical
Blue
Family
Blue
Colour Card
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read cool. Both belong to the blue family.
How they read
In their own wordsKittiwake is a clean, cool mid blue from Farrow & Ball, named for the seabird and, in the brand's words, inspired by the wings of seabirds when seen in bright sunlight. On the colour card it sits between Parma Gray and Lulworth Blue.
Coat of Arms is a deep, gray-tempered teal — blue enough to anchor a room the way a navy would, green enough to feel alive against wood, brass and raffia. At LRV 14.7 it is a genuinely dark color, and that darkness is where its elegance lives: it recedes, it flatters everything placed against it, and it never looks like a color that is trying.