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.
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
Pelican Gray
Benjamin Moore · 1612
LRV
58.58
#F4F0E7
Hex
#C6CBCC
244 · 240 · 231
RGB
198 · 203 · 204
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Le Cygne is warm; Pelican Gray is cool.
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Undertone
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
White
Family
Gray
Ressource Collection
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorPelican Gray
The difference
Read from the numbersLe Cygne leans warm where Pelican Gray reads cool. Le Cygne is a white, Pelican Gray a gray.
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 paneling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.
Pelican Gray is a light, silvery grey with a clear blue lean — cooler than the greiges that dominated the last decade, and all the better for it. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to feel deliberate. It is the grey of a slate roof after rain.