The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
The Paris apartment white
Maritime White
Benjamin Moore · 963
The cream that behaves
LRV
71.6
#F4F0E7
Hex
#E5DECE
244 · 240 · 231
RGB
229 · 222 · 206
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Undertone
Cream with a green-grey base; an ivory that will not go yellow
Whites
Family
Whites
Ressource Collection
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Both belong to the whites family.
How they read
In their own wordsLe 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 panelling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.
Maritime White is a warm, creamy off-white with a green-grey base that stops it from tipping into yellow. At LRV 72 it is soft rather than bright — an ivory, not a white — and in a bedroom it makes everything feel calmer and slightly older, in the best way.