The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Moonlight
Benjamin Moore · 2020-60
The yellow that lights a room from inside
Creekbed
Benjamin Moore · 1006
The taupe that makes marble look expensive
In real rooms
Every room, each colorMoonlight
1 roomCreekbed
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersMoonlight is the lighter of the two at LRV 83.37, 50 points above Creekbed at LRV 33.34. Both read warm. Moonlight is a yellows, Creekbed a neutrals. For a whole room, Moonlight is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Creekbed is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsMoonlight — now sold by Benjamin Moore under the name Sicilian Lemon, same number 2020-60 — is a pale, clear butter yellow with an LRV of 83. It is light enough to behave like a tinted white in a bright room and cheerful enough to make a north-facing one feel as if the sun came out.
Creekbed is a true taupe — grey and brown balanced so evenly that it reads as neither, with a faint pink warmth underneath. At LRV 33 it is a mid-tone, dark enough to feel like a color and light enough to keep a small room from closing in. It is the shade of wet river stone.