The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Tundra
Benjamin Moore · 2133-70
A white that keeps its cool
Monet
Benjamin Moore · 1243
Dusty rose in a Venetian mirror
In real rooms
Every room, each colorMonet
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersTundra is the lighter of the two at LRV 77.07, 37.1 points above Monet at LRV 39.98. Tundra leans cool where Monet reads warm. Tundra is a whites, Monet a pinks. For a whole room, Tundra is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Monet is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsTundra is the off-white for people who find most whites too creamy. Its LRV of 77 puts it in soft-white territory, but the base is a cool, faintly green-blue grey, so it reads clean and quiet rather than warm. On plaster mouldings and in rooms with a lot of daylight it looks like fresh air.
Monet is a dusty, mauve-leaning pink with a beige base — a rose that has softened into something closer to lilac. At LRV 40 it is a real mid-tone, dark enough to feel enveloping in a small room and light enough to keep a powder room from going gloomy.