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Settled, side by side

Le Cygne

Ressource · R238

Cascade White

Benjamin Moore · 2127-70

LRV
73.71
#F4F0E7
Hex
#DDE2E3
244 · 240 · 231
RGB
221 · 226 · 227
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Le Cygne is warm; Cascade White is cool.
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Undertone
Off-white with a distinct blue-grey cast; a white that remembers the sky
White
Family
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Ressource Collection
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In real rooms

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The difference

Read from the numbers

Le Cygne leans warm where Cascade White reads cool. Both belong to the white family.

How they read

In their own words

Le Cygne — the swan — is a warm, matte ivory from the French house Ressource. It has the chalky, light-absorbing quality of old lime plaster, which is why it looks so at home on Haussmann paneling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.

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.

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