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 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

Savage Ground

2 rooms
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
All 2 rooms

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Swiss Coffee is a whites, Savage Ground a neutrals.

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.

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.

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