A hallway is usually the darkest, most light-starved room in the house — no windows of its own, just whatever spills in from the doors along it — so the white you pick has to work harder than it would anywhere else. Chantilly Lace (Benjamin Moore OC-65, LRV 92) is the closest thing on this list to true white, and in a hall that only gets borrowed light, that extra reflectance is doing real work: it bounces back almost everything that reaches it instead of absorbing it the way a lower-LRV shade would.
Not every hallway wants that much brightness, though. Snowbound (Sherwin-Williams SW 7004, LRV 83) reads as a soft, slightly warm white that opens up a narrow run without going stark, which is why it shows up so often in passageways that connect several rooms. Dove Wing (Benjamin Moore OC-18, LRV 76) sits lower on the LRV scale and leans warmer still — it adds a touch of coziness to a hall instead of making it feel like an extension of a hospital corridor, and it's still light enough that it won't read as dark.
The rest of the list covers the practical middle ground: Mountain Peak White (Benjamin Moore 2148-70, LRV 91) and Cotton Balls (Benjamin Moore OC-122, LRV 90) are both crisp, high-reflectance whites suited to hallways with little to no natural light of their own, while Behr's White (52, LRV 88), Atrium White (Benjamin Moore OC-145, LRV 86), and Milk Paint (Behr N330-1, LRV 86) each carry enough warmth to keep a windowless passage from feeling clinical. None of these are decisions you need to overthink — every one of them is a standard mix any store carrying that brand can tint on the spot.
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