Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Tranquility

Benjamin Moore · AF-490

De Nimes

Farrow & Ball · No. 299

53.31
LRV
#BBC3BB
Hex
#748284
187 · 195 · 187
RGB
116 · 130 · 132
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Pale grey with a green-blue whisper; sea fog
Undertone
Grayed blue with a touch of green; workwear denim rather than sky
Blue
Family
Blue
Affinity Color Collection
Collection
Colour Card

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read cool. Both belong to the blue family.

How they read

In their own words

Tranquility is a pale grey from Benjamin Moore's Affinity collection with a soft green-blue whisper — the color of sea fog rather than a city sky. At LRV 53 it is a true light-mid tone, and it does exactly what its name suggests: it calms a room without making it cold.

De Nimes is Farrow & Ball No. 299, which the brand calls "a quietly elegant blue" that "feels wonderfully down to earth." Its name and its shade come from the everyday workwear cloth woven in Nîmes, France, and Farrow & Ball names Shaded White as its complementary white. Stiffkey Blue and Inchyra Blue are the brand's darker neighbors; Selvedge and Oval Room Blue the lighter ones.

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