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Milk White

Edward Bulmer Natural Paint · Milk White

Wimborne White

Farrow & Ball · No. 239

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Hex
#F4F2E7
241 · 236 · 223
RGB
245 · 242 · 232
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Warm, soft white with none of milk's blue cast
Undertone
Soft white with a touch of yellow; the English default white
White
Family
White
Core range
Collection
Colour Card

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The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Both belong to the white family.

How they read

In their own words

Milk White is one of Edward Bulmer's core whites — a warm, inviting white with none of the blueness the name might suggest. The paint is plant-based and pigmented with earths, which gives the colour a chalky, gentle depth on the wall.

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.

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