Royal Beige is a warm mid sand-beige with a faint pink cast to it: soft rather than yellow, and warmer on the floor than most beiges photograph. It is a mid tone, noticeably deeper than Pearl, which is the paler...

Carbonite is the darkest colour in Baltimore: a near-black charcoal lifted by a grey fleck running through the mottled pattern, which stops it from becoming the flat black hole that solid dark carpet can be. Compared with Graphene it is...

Graphene is a dark charcoal-grey, mottled through with Baltimore's two-tone fleck so that it reads as a textured dark floor rather than a solid slab of charcoal. It is a clear step darker than Dolomite while staying recognisably grey: where...

Dolomite is Baltimore's mid cool grey, and it is the highest-contrast of the greys in the range. The two-tone speckle reads more strongly here than it does in the paler colours, so the mottled pattern is visibly part of the...

Dune is a warm mid taupe-brown, a proper mid tone, not a pale, with Baltimore's mottled speckle giving it depth and movement across a floor. It is the natural step up from Sandstone: same warm family, but darker and browner,...

Chalk is the palest colour Baltimore offers: a light, clean, cool grey with the range's fine two-tone speckle preventing it from looking like a flat sheet of paint. It is cooler than Sandstone, which is the warm pale in the...

Sandstone is the warmest of the pale colours in Baltimore: a sand-beige with the range's mottled two-tone fleck lifting it, so it looks like weathered stone rather than flat cream. Put it beside Chalk and the difference is obvious: Chalk...

Marble sits at the cool, faintly sage end of the Baltimore palette: a soft grey with a green undertone, shot through with the range's two-tone speckle so it never reads as a flat block of colour. Next to Chalk it...

Tact is the darkest colour Belgotex offer in the Westminster range, a true near-black with no grey softening it and no warmth behind it. Sensor, its closest neighbour, keeps just enough charcoal to read as a very deep grey in...

Sensor is a near-black charcoal, and the distinction between it and Tact is small but worth understanding before you choose. Tact is the true near-black of the Westminster range, the darkest colour in it; Sensor stops just short, holding enough...

Palpate is a very dark warm charcoal-brown, and the brown is the whole point of it. It is the only near-black in the Westminster range that leans warm, which makes it the one to specify when Sensor and Tact look...

Dwell is a deep navy blue, and it is a real navy rather than a charcoal that happens to lean cool. Set it beside Kinect, which is a dark slate charcoal with a blue cast, and the difference is immediate:...

Kinect is a dark slate charcoal carrying a distinct blue cast. It is not navy, which is Dwell's job, and it is not the flat charcoal of Bionic or Sensor: it is the point where grey and blue meet, deep...

Bionic is a mid charcoal-grey with no colour cast pulling it in any direction, and in a range full of olive, rust and navy it is the deliberate neutral. There is no blue in it as there is in Tingle...

Deft is a light-to-mid cool blue-grey, the tone that sits between Gesture's pale warm silver and Tingle's fuller blue-grey slate. It is light enough to keep a room open and just blue enough to be read as a colour rather...

Tingle is a mid blue-grey slate, the fully resolved version of the blue thread that runs quietly through Deft. Where Deft is light and tentative about its blue, Tingle commits: it is a proper slate tone that holds its colour...

Synth is a mid warm greige with a faint olive tint, and it is the quiet member of a range otherwise known for strong colour. Think of it as Empath's neutral cousin: the same olive thread, diluted into a warm...

Gesture is the lightest colour in the Westminster range: a pale warm silver-grey with just enough warmth in the base to stop it going icy under downlights. It is the natural choice when the rest of the palette is doing...