The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Tundra
Benjamin Moore · 2133-70
A white that keeps its cool
Stonington Gray
Benjamin Moore · HC-170
The grey that does not pick a side
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersTundra is the lighter of the two at LRV 77.07, 17.7 points above Stonington Gray at LRV 59.36. Tundra leans cool where Stonington Gray reads neutral. Tundra is a whites, Stonington Gray a grays. For a whole room, Tundra is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Stonington 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.
Stonington Gray is Benjamin Moore's most balanced light grey — neither warm nor cool, with a faint green-blue base that keeps it from going purple, the failing of so many greys. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to read as a color against white trim.