Benjamin Moore Whites. Chantilly Lace, Super White, Oxford.
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Please help! BM Oxford White with BM Chantilly Lace
Comments (23)@hemina Hey i have Oxford white as my wall and chantilly Lace as my trim in my family room abd I love it but I have Oxford white as my trim in other rooms now if you go on The Benjamin moore site they now actually list Oxford white and Chantilly Lace as cordinating/matching colors They also list White Dove as a similar color to oxford white.. White Dove walls with oxford white trim is Gorgeous just like Oxford white walls with Chantilly lace trim ♥️...See MoreBM Super White versus Chantilly Lace
Comments (1)Super White is pure white, no undertones. We used that in our kitchen/ LR/DR/foyer/bedroom hallway and all ceilings throughout the house. In our home it looks very clean, but not stark. Every other “white” we swatched on our walls looked yellow, or peach, or pink.... If I recall, Chantilly Lace appeared to have yellow undertones in the wall swatch, but I could be wrong. So many of them look yellow or beige compared to Super White....See MoreHouse Exterior Paint - Benjamin Moore Super White or White?
Comments (7)m111675, just do a google image search for "ben moore super white exterior." Same for the white. I just did and got tons of images. See if this is any help for Super White... https://www.google.com/search?q=ben+moore+super+white+exterior&rlz=1CAVVUC_enUS835&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS9I2k4fXgAhWYsJ4KHWijDbEQ_AUIDigB&cshid=1552158683415565&biw=1920&bih=909...See MoreBenjamin Moore Oxford White / White Heron - in rooms with less light?
Comments (77)The concept of warm and cool colors predates most of the scientific tools we have today to measure color. It originated from the concept of warmth vs cold. the Oxford English Dictionary describes 18th century usage to include: Cold - applied to tints or colouring which suggest a cold sunless day, or the colder effect of evening; esp. to blue and grey, and tints akin to these. Warm - suggestive of warmth, said especially of red or yellow ... to become 'warmer' or more ruddy: "On a bright morning of July, when the grey of the sky was just beginning to warm with the rising day". I always conceptualized the concept as warm-related to the heat of the sun or cool of the water. The scientific difference deals with the sensitivity of the S cone. I am not a neuro science expert, but it has something to do with thresholds of the S cone and how colors change as they are desaturated. Blue goes from blue to darker and darker blue, but we still perceive the color as blue and we name the colors as blue light blue, sky blue, navy blue. When we change the chroma Blue goes from bright blue to gray blue. You can't do the same with yellow. We only see yellow in very specific ranges of light and chroma. We call dark yellow gold or brown and as we desaturate yellow it can either move toward green or violet. At the lowest saturations there isn't any yellow or orange or red. Have you ever heard someone describe a gray as a dark yellow gray? Nope. Beige can be pink, yellow, gold or green and gray can be green gray, blue gray or violet gray. So when the hue is yellow and it is desaturated it becomes olive green or brown - moves toward red or toward green it never stays yellow. At some point it moves to either a green gray or violet gray and looses any association with yellow. Grays are innately cool. - related to water, not the sun. Do you ever picture the sun as gray? Do you ever picture water as yellow? Where is the break between cool and warm? At what level of chroma do we determine that a yellow is no longer warm, but has moved into the cool zone? That may actually depend on your physiology - some people see more colors than other and can discern subtle changes in color better than others. It may also depend on the levels of dopamine in your system - we see colors more vividly when dopamine levels are high than we do when dopamine levels are low. I don't know if their is a definitive answer to your question about Chantilly Lace. Is it above or below the S cone threshold? It seems that the color experts at Benjamin Moore agree with many other color experts and define it as a cool white so my guess is that it is beyond the threshold of chroma where we actually perceive the color as warm even if it is in a CIE LCH hue that is generally associated with the Munsell Yellow Green hue family. BTW - CIE LCH Is linear in nature, where Munsell is not. The Muncell hues curve when mapped against LCH hues. The curvature expands as chroma and luminance are reduced. How we see color and how we measure color are not perfectly correlated....See Morechispa
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