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Peach Color Palette — Peach & Cocoa

A soft five-color scheme led by warm peach and grounded in cocoa brown, balanced by cream and clay — every color matched to real paint you can buy.

By Jessica Williams · Color Stylist & Interior Editor

Soft Peach
Dominant
Kompozit Pastel Peach · 1007
#F1CAAD
LRV 64
Rich Cocoa
Secondary
Kompozit Hideaway · 0137
#654637
LRV 7
Warm Cream
Base
Kompozit Kiara · 0005
#F5ECDC
LRV 85
Clay Rose
Support
Kompozit Sweet Sue · 1003
#D8AA86
LRV 45
Burnt Sienna
Accent
Kompozit Pretty Parasol · 1039
#AC5D3E
LRV 17
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Peach has grown up. This scheme leans on a soft, skin-warm Soft Peach as the lead, the kind of shade that catches morning light and holds it. It feels gentle without going babyish, which is exactly where peach is landing for 2026.

To keep it from floating away, I anchored it with Rich Cocoa and a touch of Burnt Sienna. Those deeper warm tones give the peach weight and make it read intentional rather than sweet. A Clay Rose bridges the two so nothing jumps.

Warm Cream is the quiet one here, the breathing room that lets everything else glow. Spread the peach across your largest surfaces, save the cocoa and sienna for wood, trim, or one grounding accent, and the room will feel both soft and serious at once.

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Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Kompozit first; take any SKU to the store — these mix on demand.

Soft Peach
#F2C8A8 · LRV 63 · Dominant
Kompozit Pastel Peach · 1007 ΔE 1.11
Backdrop August · BD-AU ΔE 5.47
Behr Almond Biscuit · S250-2 ΔE 2.88
Benjamin Moore Desert View · 108 ΔE 1.72
Clare Before Sunrise · PNT100-LT-71 ΔE 1.66
Dunn-Edwards Sundown · DE5268 ΔE 3.31
Farrow & Ball String · No. 8 ΔE 9.62
Magnolia Home Cabbage Rose · JG-26 ΔE 8.04
PPG / Glidden Citrus Sachet · 1198-3 ΔE 0.91
Sherwin-Williams Avid Apricot · SW 6639 ΔE 2.09
Valspar Cinnamon Foam · V085-2 ΔE 2.05
Rich Cocoa
#5A4031 · LRV 6 · Secondary
Kompozit Hideaway · 0137 ΔE 3.1
Backdrop It's a Date · BD-IT ΔE 1.52
Behr Breakfast Blend · 280F-7 ΔE 3.62
Benjamin Moore Deep Taupe · 2111-10 ΔE 2
Clare Blackish · PNT100-DP-54 ΔE 12.77
Dunn-Edwards Northern Territory · DEA158 ΔE 3.14
Farrow & Ball Mahogany · No. 36 ΔE 8.01
Magnolia Home Wooded Acres · JG-122 ΔE 7.76
PPG / Glidden Racy Raisin · 16-24 ΔE 6.32
Sherwin-Williams Van Dyke Brown · SW 7041 ΔE 4.54
Valspar Roasted Coffee · 2009-10 ΔE 3.05
Warm Cream
#F4ECDD · LRV 84 · Base
Kompozit Kiara · 0005 ΔE 0.5
Backdrop Jane · BD-JA ΔE 3.04
Behr Heavy Cream · PPU5-10 ΔE 1.21
Benjamin Moore October Sky · 2162-70 ΔE 0.5
Clare Like Buttah · PNT100-LT-62 ΔE 1.92
Dunn-Edwards Modern Ivory · DE6197 ΔE 0.5
Farrow & Ball White Tie · No. 2002 ΔE 1.51
Magnolia Home Pearly Cotton · JG-33 ΔE 2.16
PPG / Glidden Spun Cotton · 1203-1 ΔE 0.75
Sherwin-Williams Shell White · SW 8917 ΔE 1.85
Valspar Statuesque · 7002-5 ΔE 1.38
Clay Rose
#D9A98C · LRV 45 · Support
Kompozit Sweet Sue · 1003 ΔE 2.73
Backdrop Rosita · BD-RO ΔE 8.2
Behr Nairobi Dusk · PPU3-10 ΔE 0.83
Benjamin Moore Casabella · 102 ΔE 2.24
Clare Subrosa · PNT100-MD-76 ΔE 7.21
Dunn-Edwards Cliff Brown · DEC711 ΔE 3.78
Farrow & Ball Jitney · No. 293 ΔE 9.6
Magnolia Home Rosy Pink · JG-154 ΔE 6.13
PPG / Glidden Clay Fire · 1070-4 ΔE 1.23
Sherwin-Williams Windswept Canyon · SW 9010 ΔE 2.56
Valspar Arizona Dust · 2003-8A ΔE 2.7
Burnt Sienna
#B5572E · LRV 17 · Accent
Kompozit Pretty Parasol · 1039 ΔE 3.46
Backdrop Bahaus · BD-BH ΔE 14.44
Behr Thanksgiving · M210-7 ΔE 3.03
Benjamin Moore Pilgrimage Foliage · 2175-20 ΔE 2.03
Clare Sriracha · PNT100-DP-29 ΔE 11.08
Dunn-Edwards Iron Ore · DE5153 ΔE 6.02
Farrow & Ball Blazer · No. 212 ΔE 10.52
Magnolia Home On Bosque · JG-36 ΔE 4.47
PPG / Glidden Orange Vermillion · 1194-7 ΔE 4.79
Sherwin-Williams Jalapeño · SW 6629 ΔE 5.32
Valspar Ripe Peach · P045 ΔE 2.93

Questions

Why does peach pair so well with cocoa brown?

Peach is just a soft, sun-warmed orange, and cocoa is its deeper cousin, so they share the same warm root and feel like one family rather than a contrast. The brown gives the peach somewhere to settle.

How much peach should I actually use?

Let peach lead on the big surfaces, then bring cocoa and sienna in at roughly one-fifth of the space through wood, textiles, or a single wall. The cream keeps the whole thing breathing.

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