The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
White Dove
Benjamin Moore · OC-17
The soft white designers reach for first
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
The Paris apartment white
83.16
LRV
#EFEEE5
Hex
#F4F0E7
239 · 238 · 229
RGB
244 · 240 · 231
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Soft warm white with a gray-green base that resists yellowing
Undertone
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Whites
Family
Whites
Off-White Collection
Collection
Ressource Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Both belong to the whites family.
How they read
In their own wordsWhite Dove (OC-17) is Benjamin Moore's most-specified soft white — warm, but with a subtle gray-green base that keeps it from going yellow. At LRV 83 it's bright enough to act as a white on walls and trim, yet soft enough to never feel stark.
Le Cygne — the swan — is a warm, matte ivory from the French house Ressource. It has the chalky, light-absorbing quality of old lime plaster, which is why it looks so at home on Haussmann panelling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.