Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Little Falls

Benjamin Moore · 1621

Inventive Orange

Sherwin-Williams · SW 6633

41.07
LRV
42.41
Inventive Orange is 1.3 points lighter
#9EADB7
Hex
#E89D6F
158 · 173 · 183
RGB
232 · 157 · 111
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Little Falls is cool; Inventive Orange is warm.
Dusty steel blue with grey; a denim that has been washed many times
Undertone
Clear apricot orange; warm yellow-red base
Blue
Family
Orange
Classics Color Collection
Collection
Orange

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Inventive Orange is the lighter of the two at LRV 42.41, 1.3 points above Little Falls at LRV 41.07. Little Falls leans cool where Inventive Orange reads warm. Little Falls is a blue, Inventive Orange a orange. For a whole room, Inventive Orange is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Little Falls is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Little Falls is a mid-tone, grey-softened blue with the ease of well-worn denim. At LRV 41 it holds its color in daylight without ever becoming bright, and its grey base keeps it from reading as nursery blue. It is calm without being cold.

Inventive Orange is a mid-light, clear apricot — a genuine orange rather than a terracotta, with a warm yellow-red base. At LRV 42 it is bright enough to lift a room and saturated enough to read as a deliberate choice.

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