The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Pure White
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7005
The white that stays out of the way
Sudbury Yellow
Farrow & Ball · No. 51
The yellow from the staircase at Sudbury Hall
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersPure White leans neutral where Sudbury Yellow reads warm. Pure White is a whites, Sudbury Yellow a yellows.
How they read
In their own wordsPure White is one of Sherwin-Williams' most-specified whites for a simple reason: it has almost no agenda. A trace of grey keeps it from glaring, a trace of warmth keeps it from turning blue, and at LRV 84 it is bright without being stark. It is the white you choose when the art, the furniture or the view is the point.
Sudbury Yellow is an ochre-gold named for the staircase at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire — a yellow with enough earth in it to feel historic rather than sunny. It is warm, saturated and surprisingly easy to live with, because the ochre keeps it from ever turning acid.