The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
The Paris apartment white
White Dove
Benjamin Moore · OC-17
The soft white designers reach for first
LRV
83.16
#F4F0E7
Hex
#EFEEE5
244 · 240 · 231
RGB
239 · 238 · 229
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Undertone
Soft warm white with a gray-green base that resists yellowing
Whites
Family
Whites
Ressource Collection
Collection
Off-White 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.
White Dove (OC-17) is Benjamin Moore's most-specified soft white — warm, but with a subtle gray-green base that keeps it from going yellow. At LRV 83 it's bright enough to act as a white on walls and trim, yet soft enough to never feel stark.