Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Savage Ground

Farrow & Ball · No. 213

Cafe Sonata

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

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Hex
#C1BBAE
213 · 197 · 169
RGB
193 · 187 · 174
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Undertone
Neutral golden wheat; slightly more green than red, in Portola's words
Beige
Family
Beige
Archive Collection
Collection
Roman Clay

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Both belong to the beige family.

How they read

In their own words

Savage Ground is a warm, sandy beige from Farrow & Ball's archive — a yellow-leaning neutral that reads as sunlit rather than safe. It is the color of a stone floor in a Provençal kitchen, and it makes a room feel warmer without asking anyone to notice why.

Cafe Sonata is a Portola Paints Roman Clay that the brand describes as a "neutral golden wheat" that leans "slightly more green than red." Roman Clay is a troweled plaster finish rather than a rolled paint, so the color arrives with soft movement and a matte, stone-like surface instead of a flat, even coat.

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