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Settled, side by side

Sudbury Yellow

Farrow & Ball · No. 51

The yellow from the staircase at Sudbury Hall

Savage Ground

Farrow & Ball · No. 213

Beige, but happy about it

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Hex
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215 · 181 · 118
RGB
213 · 197 · 169
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Ochre-gold; a yellow with earth in it
Undertone
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Yellows
Family
Neutrals
Colour Card
Collection
Archive Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

Sudbury Yellow

3 rooms
All 3 rooms

Savage Ground

2 rooms
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
All 2 rooms

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Sudbury Yellow is a yellows, Savage Ground a neutrals.

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.

Savage Ground is a warm, sandy beige from Farrow & Ball's archive — a yellow-leaning neutral that reads as sunlit rather than safe. It is the color of a stone floor in a Provençal kitchen, and it makes a room feel warmer without asking anyone to notice why.

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