The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Pelican Gray
Benjamin Moore · 1612
Grey, silver-lined
Swiss Coffee
Benjamin Moore · OC-45
The warm white everyone starts with
In real rooms
Every room, each colorPelican Gray
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersSwiss Coffee is the lighter of the two at LRV 84, 25.4 points above Pelican Gray at LRV 58.58. Pelican Gray leans cool where Swiss Coffee reads warm. Pelican Gray is a grays, Swiss Coffee a whites. For a whole room, Swiss Coffee is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Pelican Gray is the bolder pick.
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.
Swiss Coffee is the warm white by which other warm whites are measured. With an LRV near 84 it stays bright and open, but a slight yellow-beige undertone keeps it creamy rather than clinical — the look of fresh cream rather than fresh snow.