Egret White vs City Loft: Same LRV, Separate Colors

Egret White and City Loft: the documented difference

Egret White and City Loft both have a published LRV of 70. That equality describes reflectance, not matching colorants or identical undertones. Choose by the material relationship as well as the number. Egret White's stone-related description makes it suitable to investigate as a colored off-white, rather than an absence of color. City Loft is an off-white with beige and red in the manufacturer's description.

The choice beside limestone tile and pale wood trim

Pale wood trim may need a different wall relationship from bright painted trim, so it should stay in the sample arrangement.

Set up both candidates with limestone tile and pale wood trim. Use equal-sized boards with the intended finishes and place them in the same orientation. Do not put one directly beside a window and leave the other in shadow. A difference that follows the position rather than the board is a lighting observation, not evidence that the formula changed.

What the comparison can—and cannot—settle

For a second point of reference, Drift Of Mist is recorded at LRV 69.

Allow the stone to set the comparison rather than choosing a white from an isolated screen chip. Assess Egret White and City Loft alone as well as side by side. The unchosen board will not remain in the finished room, and a preference created only by that neighbor may not survive its removal. Before ordering samples, compare room-planning features in the paint color visualizer roundup.