The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Savage Ground

Farrow & Ball · No. 213

Beige, but happy about it

Pelican Gray

Benjamin Moore · 1612

Grey, silver-lined

LRV
58.58
#D5C5A9
Hex
#C6CBCC
213 · 197 · 169
RGB
198 · 203 · 204
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Savage Ground is warm; Pelican Gray is cool.
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Undertone
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
Neutrals
Family
Grays
Archive Collection
Collection
Classics Color Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

Savage Ground

2 rooms
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
All 2 rooms

Pelican Gray

1 room
All 1 room

The difference

Read from the numbers

Savage Ground leans warm where Pelican Gray reads cool. Savage Ground is a neutrals, Pelican Gray a grays.

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.

Pelican Gray is a light, silvery grey with a clear blue lean — cooler than the greiges that dominated the last decade, and all the better for it. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to feel deliberate. It is the grey of a slate roof after rain.

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