The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Pink Cloud
Benjamin Moore · 887
Pink, but barely
Brinjal
Farrow & Ball · No. 222
Aubergine skin, not aubergine flesh
In real rooms
Every room, each colorBrinjal
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersPink Cloud is the lighter of the two at LRV 80.1, 73.1 points above Brinjal at LRV 7. Both read warm. Pink Cloud is a pinks, Brinjal a reds & purples. For a whole room, Pink Cloud is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Brinjal is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsPink Cloud is the lightest pink in the library — at LRV 80 it is closer to a tinted white than a color, a peach-blush so faint it reads as warmth rather than pink until you see it beside a true white. It is gentle, luminous and impossible to overdo.
Brinjal is the Hindi word for aubergine, and the color is exactly the skin of one: a deep, brown-based plum that reads almost black until light finds the purple in it. With an LRV around 7 it is a true dark, and it is one of the most flattering darks there is — warmer than navy, softer than black, richer than charcoal.