White Dove OC-017 Hue Family
Here’s White Dove OC-017 by Benjamin Moore in context of its Hue Family neighborhood, 6 Y, on The Color Strategist Color Wheel. The pink arrows point to where White Dove OC-017 fits in among the other colors according to its Value 9.22 rounded to 9.25 and Chroma of 0.58 rounded to 0.50.
White Dove OC-017 Color Review
White Dove OC-017 belongs to the Yellow Hue Family. If you look where it plots out on The Color Strategist Color Wheel above, you can see that it’s just barely past 6 Y, the middle of the Yellow Hue Family.
What this means is in a balanced quality of light (meaning there’s a nice mix of all the wavelengths in the visible spectrum) White Dove OC-017’s appearance could be described as a “warm, creamy white”.
White Dove “lives” more in the middle of the yellow hue family so it’s less likely to show with green-yellow overtones in certain conditions. It also has a little more chroma, a little more colorfulness so it’s going to look creamy compared to a creamy off-white like Simply White, for Example.
What determines if White Dove looks dirty or dingy is what it’s next to. Because it does have a Chroma value of 0.58, you have to be aware of context.
For example wall color. If the wall color has at least 0.20 more/less in Chroma, then White Dove will look like a clean, crisp creamy white and unlikely to appear dirty/dingy.
This is why you’ll find conflicting opinions about White Dove. For some it’s dirty/dingy for others it’s the most beautiful creamy white they’ve ever used.
It all depends on how they used it.
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