The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Monet

Benjamin Moore · 1243

Dusty rose in a Venetian mirror

Faded Terracotta

Farrow & Ball · No. CC8

Terracotta after a decade in the sun

39.98
LRV
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Hex
#DCB594
191 · 164 · 160
RGB
220 · 181 · 148
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Dusty mauve-pink over beige; a rose that has aged into lilac
Undertone
Sun-bleached clay; peach and sand with the red worn off
Pinks
Family
Oranges
Classics Color Collection
Collection
California Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

Monet

1 room
MonetBM 1243
Design byThe Kirby Home
All 1 room

Faded Terracotta

4 rooms
All 4 rooms

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Monet is a pinks, Faded Terracotta a oranges.

How they read

In their own words

Monet is a dusty, mauve-leaning pink with a beige base — a rose that has softened into something closer to lilac. At LRV 40 it is a real mid-tone, dark enough to feel enveloping in a small room and light enough to keep a powder room from going gloomy.

Faded Terracotta is exactly what the name promises: a clay orange that has been left in the light until the red drained out, leaving a soft, sandy peach. It comes from Farrow & Ball's California Collection, made with Kelly Wearstler, and it carries that West Coast ease — warm, dusty, never brash.

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