The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Swiss Coffee
Benjamin Moore · OC-45
The warm white everyone starts with
Savage Ground
Farrow & Ball · No. 213
Beige, but happy about it
84
LRV
#EEECE1
Hex
#D5C5A9
238 · 236 · 225
RGB
213 · 197 · 169
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Creamy yellow-beige
Undertone
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Whites
Family
Neutrals
Off-White Collection
Collection
Archive Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Swiss Coffee is a whites, Savage Ground a neutrals.
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.
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.