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

Settled, side by side

Sudbury Yellow

Farrow & Ball · No. 51

Creekbed

Benjamin Moore · 1006

LRV
33.34
#D7B576
Hex
#A99A8D
215 · 181 · 118
RGB
169 · 154 · 141
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Ochre-gold; a yellow with earth in it
Undertone
Taupe — grey and brown in equal measure with a faint pink
Yellow
Family
Beige
Colour Card
Collection
Classics Color Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Sudbury Yellow is a yellow, Creekbed a beige.

How they read

In their own words

Sudbury Yellow is an ochre-gold named for the staircase at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire — a yellow with enough earth in it to feel historic rather than sunny. It is warm, saturated and surprisingly easy to live with, because the ochre keeps it from ever turning acid.

Creekbed is a true taupe — grey and brown balanced so evenly that it reads as neither, with a faint pink warmth underneath. At LRV 33 it is a mid-tone, dark enough to feel like a color and light enough to keep a small room from closing in. It is the shade of wet river stone.

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