Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Pelican Gray
Benjamin Moore · 1612
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
58.58
LRV
#C6CBCC
Hex
#F4F0E7
198 · 203 · 204
RGB
244 · 240 · 231
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Pelican Gray is cool; Le Cygne is warm.
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
Undertone
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Gray
Family
White
Classics Color Collection
Collection
Ressource Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorPelican Gray
The difference
Read from the numbersPelican Gray leans cool where Le Cygne reads warm. Pelican Gray is a gray, Le Cygne a white.
How they read
In their own wordsPelican Gray is a light, silvery grey with a clear blue lean — cooler than the greiges that dominated the last decade, and all the better for it. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to feel deliberate. It is the grey of a slate roof after rain.
Le Cygne — the swan — is a warm, matte ivory from the French house Ressource. It has the chalky, light-absorbing quality of old lime plaster, which is why it looks so at home on Haussmann paneling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.