The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Sudbury Yellow
Farrow & Ball · No. 51
The yellow from the staircase at Sudbury Hall
White Dove
Benjamin Moore · OC-17
The soft white designers reach for first
LRV
83.16
#D7B576
Hex
#EFEEE5
215 · 181 · 118
RGB
239 · 238 · 229
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Ochre-gold; a yellow with earth in it
Undertone
Soft warm white with a gray-green base that resists yellowing
Yellows
Family
Whites
Colour Card
Collection
Off-White Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Sudbury Yellow is a yellows, White Dove a whites.
How they read
In their own wordsSudbury 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.
White Dove (OC-17) is Benjamin Moore's most-specified soft white — warm, but with a subtle gray-green base that keeps it from going yellow. At LRV 83 it's bright enough to act as a white on walls and trim, yet soft enough to never feel stark.