Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Swiss Coffee
Benjamin Moore · OC-45
Lamp Room Gray
Farrow & Ball · No. 88
81.91
LRV
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Hex
#B1B1AA
238 · 236 · 225
RGB
177 · 177 · 170
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Swiss Coffee is warm; Lamp Room Gray is cool.
Creamy yellow-beige
Undertone
Traditional blue-grey, softened; the lived-in grey of lamp rooms
White
Family
Gray
Off-White Collection
Collection
Colour Card
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersSwiss Coffee leans warm where Lamp Room Gray reads cool. Swiss Coffee is a white, Lamp Room Gray a gray.
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.
Lamp Room Gray is what Farrow & Ball calls its 'most traditional blue grey' — a mid-light grey with a soft blue cast that feels older and more settled than a modern cool grey. It takes its name from the rooms where oil lamps were once trimmed and stored.