The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Tundra
Benjamin Moore · 2133-70
A white that keeps its cool
Pelican Gray
Benjamin Moore · 1612
Grey, silver-lined
In real rooms
Every room, each colorPelican Gray
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersTundra is the lighter of the two at LRV 77.07, 18.5 points above Pelican Gray at LRV 58.58. Both read cool. Tundra is a whites, Pelican Gray a grays. For a whole room, Tundra is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Pelican Gray 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.
Pelican Gray is a light, silvery grey with a clear blue lean — cooler than the greiges that dominated the last decade, and all the better for it. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to feel deliberate. It is the grey of a slate roof after rain.