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Settled, side by side

Wimborne White

Farrow & Ball · No. 239

Tundra

Benjamin Moore · 2133-70

LRV
77.07
#F4F2E7
Hex
#E2E4E3
245 · 242 · 232
RGB
226 · 228 · 227
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Wimborne White is warm; Tundra is cool.
Soft white with a touch of yellow; the English default white
Undertone
Barely-there grey with a whisper of green-blue; a white with the warmth turned down
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The difference

Read from the numbers

Wimborne White leans warm where Tundra reads cool. Both belong to the white family.

How they read

In their own words

Wimborne White is Farrow & Ball's everyday warm white — named for the Dorset town where the company was founded — with just enough yellow to keep it soft and none of the chalkiness of a true white. At LRV 89 it is bright and clean, and it is the white most often used for ceilings, trim and whole rooms in English houses.

Tundra is the off-white for people who find most whites too creamy. Its LRV of 77 puts it in soft-white territory, but the base is a cool, faintly green-blue grey, so it reads clean and quiet rather than warm. On plaster mouldings and in rooms with a lot of daylight it looks like fresh air.

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