The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Late Wheat
Benjamin Moore · CC-240
Straw, not butter
Chantilly Lace
Benjamin Moore · OC-65
The crispest, cleanest white in the room
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersChantilly Lace is the lighter of the two at LRV 90.04, 42.6 points above Late Wheat at LRV 47.41. Late Wheat leans warm where Chantilly Lace reads cool-neutral. Late Wheat is a yellows, Chantilly Lace a whites. For a whole room, Chantilly Lace 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.
Chantilly Lace (OC-65) is the brightest, crispest white in Benjamin Moore's lineup, with an LRV around 90 and an almost-neutral undertone that carries only the faintest cool edge. It reads as a clean, pure white in nearly any light.