Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Wabi
Color Atelier · Lime Paint
Pelican Gray
Benjamin Moore · 1612
LRV
58.58
#E6DFD3
Hex
#C6CBCC
230 · 223 · 211
RGB
198 · 203 · 204
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Wabi is warm; Pelican Gray is cool.
Soft off-white with a touch of umber and black; a pale taupe in limewash
Undertone
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
Beige
Family
Gray
Lime Paint
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorPelican Gray
The difference
Read from the numbersWabi leans warm where Pelican Gray reads cool. Wabi is a beige, Pelican Gray a gray.
How they read
In their own wordsWabi is a Color Atelier lime paint — a soft off-white with a tiny addition of umber and black that pulls it toward pale taupe. Because it is a limewash, the colour is mottled and cloudy, moving between chalk white and warm stone across the wall.
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.