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Settled, side by side

Vanillin

Sherwin-Williams · SW 6371

Silver Satin

Benjamin Moore · OC-26

77.86
LRV
74.9
Vanillin is 3 points lighter
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Hex
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242 · 227 · 202
RGB
228 · 225 · 217
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Warm, creamy white with a yellow undertone
Undertone
Warm grey-beige, a faint violet that rarely flashes green
White
Family
White
Collection
Off-White Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Vanillin is the lighter of the two at LRV 77.86, 3 points above Silver Satin at LRV 74.9. Both read warm. Both belong to the white family. For a whole room, Vanillin is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Silver Satin is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Vanillin SW 6371 is a warm, creamy white from Sherwin-Williams with an LRV of about 78. It has more pigment than a stark white, so it reads as a soft cream.

Silver Satin is the quiet professional of the off-white world — soft, low-chroma, and just warm enough to never read as stark. In a north-facing room it settles into a calm greige; in afternoon sun it lifts to a clean, milky white without ever turning yellow.

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