The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Swiss Coffee

Benjamin Moore · OC-45

The warm white everyone starts with

Grant Beige

Benjamin Moore · HC-83

Greige, settled and grown-up

84
LRV
55.5
Swiss Coffee is 28.5 points lighter
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Hex
#CFC3AF
238 · 236 · 225
RGB
207 · 195 · 175
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Creamy yellow-beige
Undertone
Warm greige with a soft gold cast
Whites
Family
Neutrals
Off-White Collection
Collection
Historic Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

Swiss Coffee

3 rooms
Swiss CoffeeBM OC-45
Design byStudio Leonie Berger
Swiss CoffeeBM OC-45
Design byStudio Leonie Berger
Swiss CoffeeBM OC-45
Design byStudio Leonie Berger
All 3 rooms

Grant Beige

1 room
Grant BeigeBM HC-83
Design byStudio Leonie Berger
All 1 room

The difference

Read from the numbers

Swiss Coffee is the lighter of the two at LRV 84, 28.5 points above Grant Beige at LRV 55.5. Both read warm. Swiss Coffee is a whites, Grant Beige a neutrals. For a whole room, Swiss Coffee is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Grant Beige is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Swiss 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.

Grant Beige balances beige and grey in nearly equal measure — the textbook greige. A slight yellow-gold undertone adds warmth, while the grey content keeps it from ever reading sweet or sandy. It is the safe, sophisticated neutral that anchors a whole-home palette.

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