Farrow & Ball · No. 269 · Whites
Farrow & Ball
Cabbage White
PPG
Ice Castles
Lower score means closer. Under 2 is hard to tell apart on the wall; over 5 is a different colour that sits in the same family.
British paint maker, widely stocked across the UK.
UK stockists
Closest · 105
Slaked Lime
Closescore 2.41
Same family and depth. Expect a slight shift in warmth or strength.
Option 2 · 106
Gauze
Similarscore 3.60
Option 3 · 130
Joanna
Similarscore 3.86
Sold through independent stockists in the UK and mixed to order.
UK stockists
Closest · 2123-60
Sea Foam
Near identicalscore 0.92
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · 2139-70
White Ice
Near identicalscore 0.94
Option 3 · 2122-60
Palest Pistachio
Very closescore 1.03
North American colour card.
Closest · SW 6476
Glimmer
Very closescore 1.73
A small difference you may see with the two side by side.
Option 2 · SW 7007
Ceiling Bright White
Very closescore 1.89
Option 3 · SW 6511
Snowdrop
Closescore 2.07
North American colour card. The Valspar range sold in UK stores is different.
Closest · 7005-18
Ivy Shadow
Very closescore 1.02
A small difference you may see with the two side by side.
Option 2 · 7004-14
White Sash
Very closescore 1.18
Option 3 · 7004-15
Dew Drop
Very closescore 1.94
North American colour card.
Closest · 1153-1
Ice Castles
Near identicalscore 0.62
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · 1235-1
Kiss Me Kate
Near identicalscore 0.62
Option 3 · 1137-1
Spring Rain
Near identicalscore 0.89
North American colour card.
Closest · BL-W13
Silver Polish
Near identicalscore 0.65
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · 780E-2
Full Moon
Very closescore 1.05
Option 3 · 52
White
Very closescore 1.23
North American colour card.
Closest · DE6295
Lightning Bolt
Near identicalscore 0.82
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · DE6302
Mist Spirit
Near identicalscore 0.82
Option 3 · DEW370
Distant Cloud
Near identicalscore 0.92
From the trade
Paint Cabbage White and your chosen match on two boards in the same finish. A flat and an eggshell in one colour never look identical.
Check them on the darkest wall in the morning and again under your own lamps at night. That is where small differences show.
Give the merchant the brand, colour name and code shown here. It avoids the guesswork of a scanned match.
In your light
Pick the way your window faces and the time of day. The same paint can look like three different colours.
North light is steady but cool and grey. It pulls blues and greys colder and makes greens look heavier. Warm based colours hold up best.
An approximation of how light colour and strength shift a paint. Use it to narrow a shortlist, then paint a sample board and look at it at these same times.
Building a scheme
Worked out from undertone and depth, the way a decorator would put a scheme together. Paint samples side by side before you commit.
A pale colour from the same undertone as Cabbage White, so the ceiling does not look stark white against it.
One step lighter or darker on skirtings, doors and window boards. A tonal scheme is the easiest way to make a room feel finished.
A dark colour that sits under it. Use on a fireplace wall, an inside door, a kitchen island or a hall below the dado.
Cabbage White is close to neutral, so almost any colour will sit beside it. These have enough character to show.
Colour values are on screen approximations taken from published community colour libraries (Farrow & Ball; Farrow & Ball (cross check); Little Greene; Benjamin Moore; Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, PPG, Behr, Dunn-Edwards), compiled 2026-10-09. Scores use CIEDE2000. Screens, light and sheen all change how paint looks, so always check a physical sample. Aethos is not connected to any of the paint makers named here and all colour names belong to their owners.