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Settled, side by side

Wabi

Color Atelier · Lime Paint

Sudbury Yellow

Farrow & Ball · No. 51

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Hex
#D7B576
230 · 223 · 211
RGB
215 · 181 · 118
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Soft off-white with a touch of umber and black; a pale taupe in limewash
Undertone
Ochre-gold; a yellow with earth in it
Beige
Family
Yellow
Lime Paint
Collection
Colour Card

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Wabi is a beige, Sudbury Yellow a yellow.

How they read

In their own words

Wabi 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.

Sudbury Yellow is an ochre-gold named for the staircase at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire — a yellow with enough earth in it to feel historic rather than sunny. It is warm, saturated and surprisingly easy to live with, because the ochre keeps it from ever turning acid.

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