The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Pink Cloud
Benjamin Moore · 887
Pink, but barely
Dead Salmon
Farrow & Ball · No. 28
Not dead, just resting
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersPink Cloud is the lighter of the two at LRV 80.1, 45.1 points above Dead Salmon at LRV 35. Both read warm. Pink Cloud is a pinks, Dead Salmon a neutrals. For a whole room, Pink Cloud is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Dead Salmon 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.
Dead Salmon takes its name from an eighteenth-century decorating bill at Kedleston Hall, where 'dead' meant matte rather than deceased. The color is a muddy pink-beige — salmon left in the sun until only the memory of pink remains. At LRV 35 it is a real mid-tone with unusual depth for a neutral.