The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Maritime White
Benjamin Moore · 963
The cream that behaves
Wimborne White
Farrow & Ball · No. 239
The white that English houses are painted
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersWimborne White is the lighter of the two at LRV 89, 17.4 points above Maritime White at LRV 71.6. Both read warm. Both belong to the whites family. For a whole room, Wimborne White is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Maritime White is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsMaritime 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.
Wimborne White is Farrow & Ball's everyday warm white — named for the Dorset town where the company was founded — with just enough yellow to keep it soft and none of the chalkiness of a true white. At LRV 89 it is bright and clean, and it is the white most often used for ceilings, trim and whole rooms in English houses.