The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Tundra
Benjamin Moore · 2133-70
A white that keeps its cool
Sea Salt
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6204
The color of sea glass
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersTundra is the lighter of the two at LRV 77.07, 14.1 points above Sea Salt at LRV 63. Both read cool. Tundra is a whites, Sea Salt a greens. For a whole room, Tundra is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Sea Salt 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.
Sea Salt is a soft green-grey that changes its mind with the light: green in a sunny room, blue-grey in a shaded one. At LRV 63 it is light enough for a whole room and quiet enough to live with for years, which is why it has become a modern classic for bedrooms and bathrooms.