Creamy White
OC-7 · Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore
Creamy White
OC-7
Noticeable yellow-beige, a warm color
- Color family
- White
- Sold for
- Interior and exterior
Benjamin Moore Creamy White OC-7 is a soft cream, the most openly yellow of the brand's popular off-whites. Its LRV of 71 gives a room plenty of light while leaving the walls clearly warmer than the trim beside them. The name is accurate: it is chosen when someone wants cream rather than white, most often on kitchen cabinets and on walls in rooms with wood floors and warm stone.
Is Creamy White warm or cool? Undertones by the numbers
leans yellow
Undertone
Noticeable yellow-beige
A visible lean you see in daylight.
Creamy White holds more yellow than any of the Benjamin Moore off-whites people usually compare it against, and it has no red at all, with only a faint green to keep the yellow honest. The result is warm without being golden, and it never turns peach the way a cream with red in it can. Beside a white ceiling it reads as a color rather than a shade of white. Beside oak flooring or a maple counter it settles in and reads as a warm neutral. Against a bright white cabinet door or a cool quartz slab, the cream is the first thing the eye finds.
Creamy White in north, south, east and west light
In a north-facing room the cool light strips the top note off it, and the walls come back as a warm oatmeal rather than a cream, which is the one exposure where the color looks restrained. In a south room the yellow doubles down after midday and the walls read frankly creamy. An east room is at its warmest early and calms down by afternoon. A west wall at sunset can pick up a gold cast that lasts an hour. Bulb choice matters: 2700K to 3000K holds the color, and cooler lamps do not make it whiter, only duller.
Watch for
- Under a cool white ceiling the walls look yellow rather than cream
- It reads darker than the chip on the wall opposite a single window
- Warm bulbs plus a warm floor push it well past what the sample showed
Best rooms and surfaces for Creamy White
Cabinets are where Creamy White gets asked about most, and it does well on them: a painted kitchen in it looks warm and settled rather than bright, and it hides the marks that show on a true white. It needs warm counters, since cream doors against gray quartz look mismatched. On walls it suits a dining room, a bedroom or a family room where the floors are wood and the light is decent. In a small north bathroom it goes dull, and next to a modern gray tiled shower it looks out of place. On a ceiling it is heavy unless the walls are the same color, in which case the whole room reads as one soft cream.
Creamy White on an exterior
Benjamin Moore sells Creamy White for exterior use, and outdoors it holds up better than expected for a cream. Direct sun bleaches it toward a warm white, so the house reads soft and pale rather than yellow, while porches, soffits and shaded walls keep the color the chip shows. It pairs naturally with wood, stone and a dark roof, and it suits a shingled or clapboard house better than a modern one. A bright white trim gives the contrast the body color cannot supply on its own.
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Creamy White vs Swiss Coffee, Natural Cream, Alabaster and Shoji White
Swiss CoffeeCreamy WhiteCreamy White vs Swiss Coffee OC-45
Creamy White is much darker; undertone noticeable yellow-beige vs subtle yellow-beige.
Eleven points of brightness separate them, and Swiss Coffee OC-45 also carries about half the yellow, so the two are not really rivals: one is a white with a warm edge, the other is a cream. A kitchen in Swiss Coffee looks light, a kitchen in Creamy White looks warm. Where people do compare them is on cabinets, and the deciding question is whether the counters and backsplash are cool, which sends the choice to Swiss Coffee.
Natural CreamCreamy WhiteCreamy White vs Natural Cream OC-14
Creamy White is noticeably lighter; both have a noticeable yellow-beige undertone.
Natural Cream OC-14 measures about six points darker, yet it is the less yellow of the pair, which surprises people looking at the names. Natural Cream reads as a warm greige on a big wall; Creamy White stays creamy at every hour. If the room already has plenty of warm wood, Natural Cream is the calmer partner for it. If the warmth has to come from the paint, Creamy White is the one that supplies it.
AlabasterCreamy WhiteCreamy White vs Alabaster SW 7008
Creamy White is much darker; undertone noticeable yellow-beige vs subtle yellow-beige.
Alabaster SW 7008 is eleven points brighter and carries around half the yellow, so it is a white that hints at warmth while Creamy White is a cream that hints at white. Trim and cabinets in Alabaster over Creamy White walls is a workable pairing. Reversing it is not, because Creamy White on trim beside Alabaster walls makes the woodwork look yellowed with age.
Shoji WhiteCreamy WhiteCreamy White vs Shoji White SW 7042
Creamy White is noticeably darker; undertone noticeable yellow-beige vs subtle yellow-beige.
Shoji White SW 7042 runs about three points brighter with less yellow and a faint trace of red, which gives it a greige character. Creamy White has no red, so it stays warm without going taupe. Shoji White is the more flexible of the two next to gray floors and cool tile. Creamy White is the better answer where the goal is an obvious cream rather than a warm neutral.
Questions about Creamy White
Is Creamy White a good color for kitchen cabinets?
It is one of the standard warm cabinet creams, and it suits a kitchen with wood, brass or warm stone in it. Doors catch light from several angles, so painted fronts usually look a shade lighter than the wall in the same color. The mistake to avoid is pairing it with a cool white quartz counter, where the cream reads as discoloration rather than a choice.
Does Creamy White look yellow?
Yes, and more so than most colors it gets compared with. The measurement is a strong yellow with nothing red or blue in it to shift the direction, so what you see is simply more or less of the same warmth. Cool northern light and cool bulbs mute it; south light, warm bulbs and wood floors amplify it. There is no version of the room where it reads as a plain white.
What colors go with Creamy White?
Benjamin Moore's palette for it runs Timid White OC-39 as the light partner, then Swept Away 701, Nantucket Gray HC-111 and Sweet Basil 455. Two of those are greens, which is the useful hint: a muted or deep green reads as a natural partner to this cream, where another beige beside it flattens the whole scheme. Wood, rattan and aged brass all belong.
Is there a Sherwin-Williams version of Creamy White?
Warm Winter SW 9506 is the closest Sherwin-Williams color by measurement and is very close, with Polar Bear SW 7564 next, a few points brighter. Neutral Ground SW 7568 is the nearest one with a full page here and reads a touch less creamy. Across all brands the closest match of any is Lime White No. 1 from Farrow & Ball.
What is one shade lighter than Creamy White?
It is not printed on a strip, so the nearest colors give the step. Bone White OC-143 is about a point brighter and a shade more yellow, and Feather Down OC-6 is roughly two points up and slightly quieter. Going down instead, Elephant Tusk OC-8 is a point and a half darker with more yellow again, which is the deeper cream people often try next.
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