The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Tundra
Benjamin Moore · 2133-70
A white that keeps its cool
Wimborne White
Farrow & Ball · No. 239
The white that English houses are painted
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersWimborne White is the lighter of the two at LRV 89, 11.9 points above Tundra at LRV 77.07. Tundra leans cool where Wimborne White reads warm. Both belong to the whites family. For a whole room, Wimborne White is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Tundra 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.
Wimborne White is Farrow & Ball's everyday warm white — named for the Dorset town where the company was founded — with just enough yellow to keep it soft and none of the chalkiness of a true white. At LRV 89 it is bright and clean, and it is the white most often used for ceilings, trim and whole rooms in English houses.