The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Swiss Coffee
Benjamin Moore · OC-45
The warm white everyone starts with
Window Pane
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6210
Green you can almost see through
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersSwiss Coffee is the lighter of the two at LRV 84, 11.8 points above Window Pane at LRV 72.24. Swiss Coffee leans warm where Window Pane reads cool. Swiss Coffee is a whites, Window Pane a greens. For a whole room, Swiss Coffee is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Window Pane 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.
Window Pane is a pale, silvery green so light — LRV 72 — that in a bright room it reads as a tinted white. The green is there, but it has faded almost to grey, which is what makes it so easy to live with: it cools a room without ever turning it minty.