The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Window Pane
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6210
Green you can almost see through
Swiss Coffee
Benjamin Moore · OC-45
The warm white everyone starts with
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersSwiss Coffee is the lighter of the two at LRV 84, 11.8 points above Window Pane at LRV 72.24. Window Pane leans cool where Swiss Coffee reads warm. Window Pane is a greens, Swiss Coffee a whites. For a whole room, Swiss Coffee is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Window Pane is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsWindow Pane is a pale, silvery green so light — LRV 72 — that in a bright room it reads as a tinted white. The green is there, but it has faded almost to grey, which is what makes it so easy to live with: it cools a room without ever turning it minty.
Swiss Coffee is the warm white by which other warm whites are measured. With an LRV near 84 it stays bright and open, but a slight yellow-beige undertone keeps it creamy rather than clinical — the look of fresh cream rather than fresh snow.