Standard White vs Dix Blue
Where Standard White belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Dix Blue is a Farrow & Ball color. Hue-wise, Standard White belongs to the greige-white family and Dix Blue to the blue-grey family. Standard White (LRV 84) reflects noticeably more light than Dix Blue (LRV 41), a difference of 43 points that becomes especially apparent in rooms with limited natural light. With a ΔE of 24.7, the contrast is hard to miss. These aren't variations on a theme — they're two different answers to the same question. Below you'll find 4 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Standard White vs Dix Blue in Real Spaces
4 real rooms side by side. Seeing Standard White and Dix Blue in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
Living Room
In a living room, color works across both daylight and evening light — the same wall can read very differently at noon and at 8pm. The LRV gap is large enough that Standard White will make the room feel meaningfully brighter than Dix Blue would.
Bedroom
The context that matters most in a bedroom is how a color reads under a bedside lamp at night, not under noon daylight. Standard White reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Dix Blue.
Dining Room
A dining room lit by a dimmed pendant or candles is one of the most forgiving environments for paint — warm light softens almost everything. Standard White returns significantly more light to the room — in a smaller or darker space, that difference in perceived brightness is hard to miss.
Bathroom
Bathrooms are one of the few spaces where you're genuinely enclosed by the paint color, which makes the choice between these two more consequential. Standard White reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Dix Blue.
Color Details
Standard White vs Dix Blue Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Standard White on one side and Dix Blue on the other.
Digital color is approximate. These simulations are generated from the manufacturer's hex values and overlaid on grayscale room photos — your screen's calibration, brightness, and viewing angle all affect how they render. Before committing to either color, test physical samples in your own space under the light you actually live with.
More Standard White comparisons
See how Standard White stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 84 vs 83), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 69), opening up a space where Ammonite encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 6, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 52), opening up a space where Purbeck Stone encloses it.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 52, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 60), opening up a space where Agreeable Gray encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 58, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 84 vs 27, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 4), opening up a space where Naval encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 55, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 84 vs 13, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 84 vs 44, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 84 and 84, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 21), opening up a space where Artichoke encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 66, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
A 9-point LRV gap (84 vs 74) makes Standard White the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 84 vs 83), so neither reads brighter in a room.
At LRV 84 vs 12, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 84 vs 68, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 68), opening up a space where Calamine encloses it.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 25), opening up a space where Treron encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 12, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 84 vs 45, Standard White is decisively the brighter choice.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 7), opening up a space where Pine Needle encloses it.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 24), opening up a space where Cement grey encloses it.
Standard White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 57), opening up a space where Guilford Green encloses it.
Standard White reads slightly lighter (LRV 84 vs 72), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.