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Settled, side by side

Preference Red

Farrow & Ball · No. 297

Margaux

Color Atelier · Lime Paint

7.54
LRV
#6F4449
Hex
#7B3D3B
111 · 68 · 73
RGB
123 · 61 · 59
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Deep red with purple and pink notes
Undertone
Deep burgundy red; wine-dark in limewash
Red
Family
Red
Farrow & Ball
Collection
Lime Paint

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Both belong to the red family.

How they read

In their own words

Preference Red No. 297 is a Baroque red that Farrow & Ball calls the deepest and richest of its reds. It is named after Preference Paints, the company's original trade name.

Margaux is Color Atelier's bold, deep red — a burgundy with the depth of the Bordeaux it is named for. In lime paint the colour is never uniform: it pools darker in the corners and lifts to a dusty rose where the light hits.

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