The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Socialite
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6025
A grown-up mauve with a brown backbone
Pink Cloud
Benjamin Moore · 887
Pink, but barely
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersPink Cloud is the lighter of the two at LRV 80.1, 60.1 points above Socialite at LRV 20. Both read warm. Socialite is a reds & purples, Pink Cloud a pinks. For a whole room, Pink Cloud is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Socialite is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsSocialite is a muted, dusty rose built on a brown base — close enough to mauve to feel romantic, grounded enough to never read as pink. With a low LRV near 20 it brings real depth, the kind of moody, grayed red that makes a dining room or powder room feel considered.
Pink Cloud is the lightest pink in the library — at LRV 80 it is closer to a tinted white than a color, a peach-blush so faint it reads as warmth rather than pink until you see it beside a true white. It is gentle, luminous and impossible to overdo.