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Settled, side by side

Pelican Gray

Benjamin Moore · 1612

Wabi

Color Atelier · Lime Paint

58.58
LRV
#C6CBCC
Hex
#E6DFD3
198 · 203 · 204
RGB
230 · 223 · 211
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Pelican Gray is cool; Wabi is warm.
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
Undertone
Soft off-white with a touch of umber and black; a pale taupe in limewash
Gray
Family
Beige
Classics Color Collection
Collection
Lime Paint

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Pelican Gray leans cool where Wabi reads warm. Pelican Gray is a gray, Wabi a beige.

How they read

In their own words

Pelican 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.

Wabi is a Color Atelier lime paint — a soft off-white with a tiny addition of umber and black that pulls it toward pale taupe. Because it is a limewash, the colour is mottled and cloudy, moving between chalk white and warm stone across the wall.

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