Farrow & Ball · CC5 · Whites
Farrow & Ball
Salt
Valspar
Heirloom Pink
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 · 25
Hollyhock
Closescore 2.84
Same family and depth. Expect a slight shift in warmth or strength.
Option 2 · 229
Wood Ash
Closescore 3.07
Option 3 · 105
Slaked Lime
Closescore 3.30
Sold through independent stockists in the UK and mixed to order.
UK stockists
Closest · 2112-70
American White
Near identicalscore 0.58
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · 2111-70
Calm
Very closescore 1.02
Option 3 · 2109-70
A la Mode
Very closescore 1.05
North American colour card.
Closest · SW 6000
Snowfall
Very closescore 1.45
A small difference you may see with the two side by side.
Option 2 · SW 6252
Ice Cube
Very closescore 1.53
Option 3 · SW 7077
Original White
Very closescore 1.60
North American colour card. The Valspar range sold in UK stores is different.
Closest · 7001-18
Heirloom Pink
Near identicalscore 0.44
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · 7001-17
Cinema Screen
Near identicalscore 0.57
Option 3 · 7004-9
Gray Shimmer
Very closescore 1.07
North American colour card.
Closest · 1002-2
Arctic Cotton
Near identicalscore 0.63
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · 1005-1
Dusky Dawn
Very closescore 1.16
Option 3 · 1014-1
Glacial Ice
Very closescore 1.22
North American colour card.
Closest · N180-1
Barely Brown
Very closescore 1.00
A small difference you may see with the two side by side.
Option 2 · UL250-13
White Opal
Very closescore 1.05
Option 3 · MQ3-32
Cameo White
Very closescore 1.09
North American colour card.
Closest · DEW382
Faded Gray
Very closescore 1.00
A small difference you may see with the two side by side.
Option 2 · DE6365
Cold Morning
Very closescore 1.06
Option 3 · DE6372
Lace Veil
Very closescore 1.83
From the trade
Paint Salt 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 Salt, 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.
Salt 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.