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

Settled, side by side

Sudbury Yellow

Farrow & Ball · No. 51

Late Wheat

Benjamin Moore · CC-240

LRV
47.41
#D7B576
Hex
#CAB88C
215 · 181 · 118
RGB
202 · 184 · 140
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Ochre-gold; a yellow with earth in it
Undertone
Golden straw with a green edge; a muted, dusty yellow-tan
Yellow
Family
Yellow
Colour Card
Collection
Designer Classics

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Both belong to the yellow family.

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.

Late Wheat is a muted golden yellow with enough tan and green in it to stay quiet — the color of a field in September rather than a lemon. At LRV 47 it sits mid-tone, so on cabinetry it reads as a real color without ever shouting, and it has none of the acidity that makes most yellows hard to live with.

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