Super White
OC-152 · Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore
Super White
OC-152
Faint yellow-leaning green, a true neutral
- Color family
- White
- Sold for
- Interior and exterior
Benjamin Moore Super White OC-152 is a bright, plain white with very little pigment of any kind in it. An LRV of 87 puts it near the top of the scale, bright enough for ceilings and trim that should be the lightest thing in a room. It is the white many painters treat as the default, and Benjamin Moore also numbers it PM-1. Nothing in it is warm or cool enough to argue with the rest of the room.
Is Super White warm or cool? Undertones by the numbers
too close to gray to lean
Undertone
Faint yellow-leaning green
Barely off gray.
Super White holds a trace of yellow and a trace of green in roughly equal measure, and neither is strong enough to name on a wall. That makes it one of the few whites that looks the same in a photograph as it does in the room. Beside Chantilly Lace OC-65 it is a shade duller, and beside Decorator's White OC-149 a shade warmer, though both differences need a side-by-side sample to see at all. Its real behavior is reflective rather than tonal: it takes light off a lawn, a brick wall or a colored floor and hands it straight back, so the surroundings decide what it looks like.
Super White in north, south, east and west light
North-facing rooms are easy for Super White because there is no undertone to strip out: it darkens a little, cools a little and stays a plain white. South light makes it the brightest surface in the room, occasionally to the point of glare on a ceiling. East and west exposures move it slightly and change nothing about its character. What does change it is the bulb, since 2700K makes it look like a soft white and 4000K makes it look like an office. On a ceiling, choose the bulb first and the sheen second.
Watch for
- Glares on a flat ceiling under a south-facing window
- Picks up green off a lawn or a leafy garden through the glass
- Reads like an office white under 4000K downlights
Best rooms and surfaces for Super White
Super White is a ceiling and trim white before it is a wall color, and it is the usual answer when a ceiling should disappear above a colored wall. On trim it draws a bright line against any wall color without bringing a temperature of its own. On kitchen cabinets it gives a plain white kitchen that stays plain, which suits a rental or a resale and leaves a family kitchen looking a little bare. As a wall color it needs the room to supply everything: art, texture, wood, colored textiles. In a basement, a workshop or a garage it does exactly what is asked of it.
Super White on an exterior
Benjamin Moore sells Super White outside, where its usual work is soffits, trim, fascia and garage doors on a colored body. It is bright enough to hold its line against charcoal, navy or deep green siding, and it does not yellow in shade, so the north side of the house still matches the south. Across full siding it is a very plain white and shows dirt and streaking sooner than a warmer white would, which matters on a house near a road.
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Super White vs Chantilly Lace, Simply White, Decorator's White and Pure White
Chantilly LaceSuper WhiteSuper White vs Chantilly Lace OC-65
Super White is a touch darker; both have a faint yellow-leaning green undertone.
Chantilly Lace OC-65 out-brightens this one by three points, at 90 against 87, and carries a fraction more yellow, so it looks the fresher of the two. Super White is flatter and quieter. Most rooms cannot show the difference, and where a kitchen is being specified from scratch, Chantilly Lace is the name people give the painter.
Simply WhiteSuper WhiteSuper White vs Simply White OC-117
Super White is a touch darker; undertone faint yellow-leaning green vs subtle yellow-leaning green.
Simply White OC-117 is brighter and much warmer, a white with real yellow in it against one with almost none. Put them on a wall and a ceiling and Simply White reads cream beside Super White's plain white. Simply White suits a room that needs warming, while Super White suits a ceiling or a trim run that should not compete with anything.
Decorator's WhiteSuper WhiteSuper White vs Decorator's White OC-149
Super White is noticeably lighter; undertone faint yellow-leaning green vs faint green.
Decorator's White OC-149 takes the cooler road: its trace of pigment is green alone, where Super White balances green against a little yellow, and it sits five points down the scale at 83. That makes Decorator's White the quieter white and Super White the brighter one. Trim in Decorator's White stays below the wall in brightness; trim in Super White sits above it.
Pure WhiteSuper WhiteSuper White vs Pure White SW 7005
Super White is noticeably lighter; undertone faint yellow-leaning green vs faint yellow-beige.
Pure White SW 7005 leans faintly beige and lands at 84, so beside Super White it reads warm rather than plain. Shoppers crossing between the brands expect these two to be interchangeable and they are not: a Pure White ceiling over Super White trim will look cream. Choose one brand's white and run it through the whole house.
Questions about Super White
Does Super White look blue?
No. It measures with a trace of yellow and a trace of green and nothing on the blue side at all. It can look cool next to a cream white, and it can pick up blue light in a north room with a gray floor, but that comes from the surroundings rather than the paint. On its own it reads plain white.
Is Super White a good ceiling color?
Yes, and ceilings are one of its main uses. It is bright enough to lift a room and neutral enough to sit above any wall color without adding a tint. In a flat finish it hides an uneven ceiling reasonably well. Over a bright sunroom it can glare, and a slightly softer white is the better call there.
Is Super White good on kitchen cabinets?
It gives a plain, bright cabinet with no cream and no gray in it, which suits a kitchen where strong counters or a bold floor do the work. It is unforgiving of a rough spray finish and shows marks around the handles. In a kitchen full of wood and brass it can look cold, and a warmer white will sit better.
What colors go with Super White?
Benjamin Moore pairs it with Horizon OC-53, a pale gray, Hale Navy HC-154 for weight and Juneau Spring 2041-40 as a clear green accent. In practice it goes with almost anything, since it adds no temperature of its own. It is at its best under saturated wall colors and least convincing beside cream whites, which make it look gray.
What is one shade darker than Super White?
White OC-151 is the step down inside its own family, about four points darker and just as neutral. Distant Gray OC-68 is among its closest matches and is actually a fraction brighter, so the spacing here is finer than the names suggest. For a step you can see, Horizon OC-53 is Benjamin Moore's own pairing and a clear pale gray.
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