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

Settled, side by side

Silver Metallic

Meoded · Decorative plaster

Pelican Gray

Benjamin Moore · 1612

LRV
58.58
#B7B4AE
Hex
#C6CBCC
183 · 180 · 174
RGB
198 · 203 · 204
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Warm pewter with a pearl sheen; the color changes as you move
Undertone
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
Gray
Family
Gray
Decorative finishes
Collection
Classics Color Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read cool. Both belong to the gray family.

How they read

In their own words

Silver Metallic is a Meoded decorative plaster rather than a flat paint — a pewter-toned finish with a pearl sheen that shifts as you move through the room. In daylight it reads as a soft warm grey; at night, with candles and lamps, it glimmers like brushed metal.

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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