Fresh Peach
What Fresh Peach Actually Looks Like
Fresh Peach is a true peach, sitting comfortably between coral and cream. It reads warm and fleshy in most lights, leaning more orange-pink than pastel. At its LRV it carries enough depth to feel like an intentional color choice rather than a near-neutral, but it stops well short of being bold or saturated.
Fresh Peach Undertones
The color carries both pink and orange undertones simultaneously, which is what makes it read as peach rather than just a pale coral or a diluted terra cotta. In warm incandescent light those orange notes amplify and the color feels richer. In cool north-facing light the pink undertones tend to come forward, and the color can read softer and more muted.
Where Fresh Peach Works Best
Fresh Peach works well in rooms where you want warmth without going full orange or red. Bedrooms and dining rooms are natural fits because the color flatters skin tones and looks inviting in both natural and evening light. It can also work in a powder room or entryway where you want something welcoming. It is an interior-only color, so keep it inside.
Where to put Fresh Peach
Fresh Peach flatters skin tones in evening light, which makes it a comfortable bedroom color. Keep bedding and textiles in warm neutrals or natural linens to let the wall color do the work without the room feeling too busy.
Peach tones have a long history in dining rooms for good reason. The color makes food and faces look warm and appealing by candlelight or in the glow of a warm-bulb fixture. Pair with natural wood furniture to ground the warmth.
A small powder room is a low-commitment place to test a color like Fresh Peach. The warmth reads well in a compact space, and because guests are not in there long, a bolder warm tone is easier to commit to than in a room you live in all day.
An entryway painted in Fresh Peach greets visitors with immediate warmth. In a hallway with limited natural light, the color holds its warmth under artificial lighting better than cooler tones would.
What to Pair With Fresh Peach
No coordinating colors are listed in our database for Fresh Peach 060 at this time. As a general pairing principle, warm whites, soft off-whites with creamy undertones, and deeper terra cotta or brick tones all tend to support rather than fight a peach base. Crisp cool whites and stark grays will tend to pull out the pink undertones and can make the color feel slightly off.
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Colors that clash with Fresh Peach
Fresh Peach and cool gray undertones work against each other at transitions. The warmth of the peach makes the gray look cold and the gray makes the peach look garish.
A very cold, bright white trim pulls the pink undertones out of Fresh Peach and can make the wall color look unintentionally clashing rather than warm.
Purple sits opposite orange on the color wheel, and the orange undertones in Fresh Peach will create visual tension with violet or cool purple furnishings.
Common questions
Fresh Peach has an LRV of 56.61, which puts it in the mid-tone range. It is neither a light pastel nor a deep saturated color. It will reflect a moderate amount of light, so it will brighten a room somewhat but will not act as a light-bouncing neutral the way a very pale color would.
The Benjamin Moore code is 060. The hex value and RGB breakdown are displayed in the color spec block on this page.
Yes. Because it sits in the mid-tone range and reads warm under incandescent and warm LED light, it can actually feel more comfortable in a lower-light room than a pale cool color would. Just be aware that in very low light it will deepen slightly and look less peachy and more terracotta-adjacent.
No. Fresh Peach 060 is listed as an interior color. If you want a similar warm peach tone on an exterior surface, you would need to find a comparable color that is approved for exterior use.