The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
White Dove
Benjamin Moore · OC-17
The soft white designers reach for first
Sudbury Yellow
Farrow & Ball · No. 51
The yellow from the staircase at Sudbury Hall
83.16
LRV
#EFEEE5
Hex
#D7B576
239 · 238 · 229
RGB
215 · 181 · 118
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Soft warm white with a gray-green base that resists yellowing
Undertone
Ochre-gold; a yellow with earth in it
Whites
Family
Yellows
Off-White Collection
Collection
Colour Card
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. White Dove is a whites, Sudbury Yellow a yellows.
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.
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.