The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Savage Ground

Farrow & Ball · No. 213

Beige, but happy about it

Swiss Coffee

Benjamin Moore · OC-45

The warm white everyone starts with

LRV
84
#D5C5A9
Hex
#EEECE1
213 · 197 · 169
RGB
238 · 236 · 225
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Undertone
Creamy yellow-beige
Neutrals
Family
Whites
Archive Collection
Collection
Off-White 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

Swiss Coffee

3 rooms
Swiss CoffeeBM OC-45
Design byStudio Leonie Berger
Swiss CoffeeBM OC-45
Design byStudio Leonie Berger
Swiss CoffeeBM OC-45
Design byStudio Leonie Berger
All 3 rooms

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Savage Ground is a neutrals, Swiss Coffee a whites.

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.

Swiss Coffee is the warm white by which other warm whites are measured. With an LRV near 84 it stays bright and open, but a slight yellow-beige undertone keeps it creamy rather than clinical — the look of fresh cream rather than fresh snow.

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