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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

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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Soft Peach
Dominant
Glidden Citrus Sachet · PPG1198-3
#F2C6A7
LRV 62
Rich Cocoa
Secondary
Backdrop It's a Date · BD-IT
#5C4435
LRV 7
Warm Cream
Base
Diamond Vogel Kiara · 0005
#F3EBDD
LRV 84
Clay Rose
Support
Behr Nairobi Dusk · PPU3-10
#D9A788
LRV 44
Burnt Sienna
Accent
Benjamin Moore Pilgrimage Foliage · 2175-20
#AD5935
LRV 16

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Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Tap a swatch for its full guide or + to save it — take any SKU to the store, they mix on demand.

Soft Peach
#F2C8A8 · LRV 63 · Dominant
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6639 · ΔE 2.09
Behr · S250-2 · ΔE 2.88
Benjamin Moore · 108 · ΔE 1.72
Valspar · V085-2 · ΔE 2.05
PPG / Glidden · PPG1202-4 · ΔE 1.42
Glidden · PPG1198-3 · ΔE 0.91
Dutch Boy · 209-2DB · ΔE 1.03
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 1126 · ΔE 2.09
Dunn-Edwards · DET451 · ΔE 2.28
Magnolia Home · JG-26 · ΔE 8.04
Farrow & Ball · NO. 68 · ΔE 8.43
Diamond Vogel · 1035 · ΔE 1.82
Hirshfield's · 1007 · ΔE 1.11
Rodda · CA116 · ΔE 4.99
C2 Paint · C2-545 · ΔE 3.19
Clare · PNT100-LT-71 · ΔE 1.66
Portola Paints · EL MATADOR · ΔE 7.36
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 7.24
Backdrop · BD-AU · ΔE 5.47
Rust-Oleum · 398641 · ΔE 12.77
Kompozit · 1007 · ΔE 1.11
Rich Cocoa
#5A4031 · LRV 6 · Secondary
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7041 · ΔE 4.54
Behr · 280F-7 · ΔE 3.62
Benjamin Moore · 2111-10 · ΔE 2
Valspar · 2009-10 · ΔE 3.05
PPG / Glidden · 16-24 · ΔE 6.32
Glidden · 50YR 06/081 · ΔE 5.94
Dutch Boy · 442-7DB · ΔE 4.7
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2481 · ΔE 4.54
Dunn-Edwards · DET691 · ΔE 5.9
Magnolia Home · JG-122 · ΔE 7.76
Farrow & Ball · NO. 9918 · ΔE 7.5
Diamond Vogel · H142 · ΔE 6.76
Hirshfield's · H0134 · ΔE 7.34
Rodda · CA215 · ΔE 6.63
C2 Paint · C2-549 · ΔE 5.67
Clare · PNT100-DP-54 · ΔE 12.77
Portola Paints · POE · ΔE 8
Annie Sloan · BURGUNDY · ΔE 14.98
Backdrop · BD-IT · ΔE 1.52
Rust-Oleum · 285144 · ΔE 17.65
Kompozit · 0137 · ΔE 3.1
Warm Cream
#F4ECDD · LRV 84 · Base
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7116 · ΔE 1.21
Behr · PPU5-10 · ΔE 1.21
Benjamin Moore · 2162-70 · ΔE 0.5
Valspar · 7002-5 · ΔE 1.38
PPG / Glidden · PPG1203-1 · ΔE 0.48
Glidden · PPG1203-1 · ΔE 0.75
Dutch Boy · 118-1DB · ΔE 1.51
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 4055 · ΔE 1.85
Dunn-Edwards · DE6197 · ΔE 0.5
Magnolia Home · JG-33 · ΔE 2.16
Farrow & Ball · NO. 2003 · ΔE 2.01
Diamond Vogel · 0005 · ΔE 0.47
Hirshfield's · 0005 · ΔE 0.5
Rodda · CA001 · ΔE 0.52
C2 Paint · C2-868 · ΔE 1.95
Clare · PNT100-LT-62 · ΔE 1.92
Portola Paints · CASA FORMA · ΔE 0.89
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 10.28
Backdrop · BD-JA · ΔE 3.04
Rust-Oleum · 329598 · ΔE 3.9
Kompozit · 0005 · ΔE 0.5
Clay Rose
#D9A98C · LRV 45 · Support
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9010 · ΔE 2.56
Behr · PPU3-10 · ΔE 0.83
Benjamin Moore · 102 · ΔE 2.24
Valspar · 2003-8A · ΔE 2.7
PPG / Glidden · PPG1070-4 · ΔE 1.03
Glidden · 70YR 45/261 · ΔE 1.21
Dutch Boy · 308-4DB · ΔE 1.8
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2105 · ΔE 2.56
Dunn-Edwards · DEC711 · ΔE 3.78
Magnolia Home · JG-154 · ΔE 6.13
Farrow & Ball · NO. 39 · ΔE 1.38
Diamond Vogel · H039 · ΔE 2.31
Hirshfield's · 1003 · ΔE 2.73
Rodda · CA120 · ΔE 5.35
C2 Paint · C2-528 · ΔE 2.78
Clare · PNT100-MD-76 · ΔE 7.21
Portola Paints · PIXIE · ΔE 3.38
Annie Sloan · VERSAILLES · ΔE 14.09
Backdrop · BD-RO · ΔE 8.2
Rust-Oleum · 285143 · ΔE 20.09
Kompozit · 1003 · ΔE 2.73
Burnt Sienna
#B5572E · LRV 17 · Accent
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6629 · ΔE 5.32
Behr · M210-7 · ΔE 3.03
Benjamin Moore · 2175-20 · ΔE 2.03
Valspar · P045 · ΔE 2.93
PPG / Glidden · PPG1194-7 · ΔE 4.49
Glidden · PPG1194-7 · ΔE 4.79
Dutch Boy · 207-6DB · ΔE 2.64
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 1111 · ΔE 3.39
Dunn-Edwards · DE5153 · ΔE 6.02
Magnolia Home · JG-36 · ΔE 4.47
Farrow & Ball · NO. 9916 · ΔE 8.37
Diamond Vogel · 1053 · ΔE 5.63
Hirshfield's · 1039 · ΔE 3.46
Rodda · CA224 · ΔE 8.59
C2 Paint · C2-584 · ΔE 5.64
Clare · PNT100-DP-29 · ΔE 11.08
Portola Paints · ZION · ΔE 10.73
Annie Sloan · EMPERORS SILK · ΔE 17.06
Backdrop · BD-BH · ΔE 14.44
Rust-Oleum · 329211 · ΔE 12.48
Kompozit · 1039 · ΔE 3.46

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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