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.
Tranquility
Benjamin Moore · AF-490
Faded Terracotta
Farrow & Ball · No. CC8
53.31
LRV
#BBC3BB
Hex
#DCB594
187 · 195 · 187
RGB
220 · 181 · 148
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Tranquility is cool; Faded Terracotta is warm.
Pale grey with a green-blue whisper; sea fog
Undertone
Sun-bleached clay; peach and sand with the red worn off
Blue
Family
Orange
Affinity Color Collection
Collection
California Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorTranquility
The difference
Read from the numbersTranquility leans cool where Faded Terracotta reads warm. Tranquility is a blue, Faded Terracotta a orange.
How they read
In their own wordsTranquility 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.
Faded Terracotta is exactly what the name promises: a clay orange that has been left in the light until the red drained out, leaving a soft, sandy peach. It comes from Farrow & Ball's California Collection, made with Kelly Wearstler, and it carries that West Coast ease — warm, dusty, never brash.