The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
The Paris apartment white
Savage Ground
Farrow & Ball · No. 213
Beige, but happy about it
#F4F0E7
Hex
#D5C5A9
244 · 240 · 231
RGB
213 · 197 · 169
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Undertone
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Whites
Family
Neutrals
Ressource Collection
Collection
Archive Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Le Cygne is a whites, Savage Ground a neutrals.
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.
Savage Ground is a warm, sandy beige from Farrow & Ball's archive — a yellow-leaning neutral that reads as sunlit rather than safe. It is the color of a stone floor in a Provençal kitchen, and it makes a room feel warmer without asking anyone to notice why.