The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Late Wheat
Benjamin Moore · CC-240
Straw, not butter
Cascade White
Benjamin Moore · 2127-70
White with a weather forecast
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCascade White is the lighter of the two at LRV 73.71, 26.3 points above Late Wheat at LRV 47.41. Late Wheat leans warm where Cascade White reads cool. Late Wheat is a yellows, Cascade White a whites. For a whole room, Cascade White is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Late Wheat is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsLate Wheat is a muted golden yellow with enough tan and green in it to stay quiet — the color of a field in September rather than a lemon. At LRV 47 it sits mid-tone, so on cabinetry it reads as a real color without ever shouting, and it has none of the acidity that makes most yellows hard to live with.
Cascade White is a cool off-white with a blue-grey cast that is visible even on the chip. At LRV 74 it is bright enough to read as white across a room, but next to a warm white it is unmistakably tinted — the color of a cloud on a clear day. It is crisp, modern and a little Scandinavian.