The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Swiss Coffee
Benjamin Moore · OC-45
The warm white everyone starts with
Cedar Grove
Benjamin Moore · 444
Sage that reads at a distance
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersSwiss Coffee is the lighter of the two at LRV 84, 37.7 points above Cedar Grove at LRV 46.34. Swiss Coffee leans warm where Cedar Grove reads cool. Swiss Coffee is a whites, Cedar Grove a greens. For a whole room, Swiss Coffee is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Cedar Grove is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsSwiss Coffee is the warm white by which other warm whites are measured. With an LRV near 84 it stays bright and open, but a slight yellow-beige undertone keeps it creamy rather than clinical — the look of fresh cream rather than fresh snow.
Cedar Grove is a mid-light sage — green enough to be clearly a color from across the room, grey enough never to look minty. At LRV 46 it sits in the sweet spot for a full-room green: it holds its tone in daylight and softens rather than muddies as the light fades.