The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Silver Satin
Benjamin Moore · OC-26
The off-white that knows when to disappear
Extra White
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7006
Gallery white
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersExtra White is the lighter of the two at LRV 86, 10.7 points above Silver Satin at LRV 75.3. Silver Satin leans warm where Extra White reads cool. Both belong to the whites family. For a whole room, Extra White is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Silver Satin is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsSilver Satin is the quiet professional of the off-white world — soft, low-chroma, and just warm enough to never read as stark. In a north-facing room it settles into a calm greige; in afternoon sun it lifts to a clean, milky white without ever turning yellow.
Extra White is a bright, slightly cool white — the closest Sherwin-Williams gets to a gallery wall. At LRV 86 it is crisp and reflective, with a faint blue-grey lean that keeps it clean rather than creamy. It is the white for architecture: plaster reliefs, coffered ceilings, a bank of steel windows.