Farrow & Ball · No. 239 · Whites
Farrow & Ball
Wimborne White
Behr
White Veil
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 · 41
Whitening
Very closescore 1.50
A small difference you may see with the two side by side.
Option 2 · 33
Linen Wash
Very closescore 1.64
Option 3 · 229
Wood Ash
Closescore 2.06
Sold through independent stockists in the UK and mixed to order.
UK stockists
Closest · 2148-70
Mountain Peak White
Very closescore 1.01
A small difference you may see with the two side by side.
Option 2 · CW-10
Capitol White
Very closescore 1.14
Option 3 · 967
Cloud White
Very closescore 1.56
North American colour card.
Closest · SW 7103
Whitetail
Near identicalscore 0.93
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · SW 7102
White Flour
Very closescore 1.09
Option 3 · SW 7566
Westhighland White
Very closescore 1.12
North American colour card. The Valspar range sold in UK stores is different.
Closest · 7002-8
Pale Bloom
Very closescore 1.02
A small difference you may see with the two side by side.
Option 2 · 7002-7
Dove White
Very closescore 1.20
Option 3 · 7002-14
Cream Delight
Very closescore 1.35
North American colour card.
Closest · 18-01
Crumb Cookie
Very closescore 1.18
A small difference you may see with the two side by side.
Option 2 · 1020-1
Atrium White
Very closescore 1.20
Option 3 · 1208-1
Accolade
Very closescore 1.34
North American colour card.
Closest · OR-W14
White Veil
Near identicalscore 0.58
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · OR-W10
White Flour
Near identicalscore 0.78
Option 3 · BWC-01
Simply White
Very closescore 1.01
North American colour card.
Closest · DEW341
Swiss Coffee
Near identicalscore 0.82
Most people could not tell these apart on the wall.
Option 2 · DE6260
Wishful White
Near identicalscore 0.97
Option 3 · DEW343
Pearl Necklace
Very closescore 1.00
From the trade
Paint Wimborne 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 Wimborne 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.
Wimborne 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.