The cream is really prominent in about 70 of the center portion of the rug.  It leans towards being mostly cream with the blue scattered in.  The 30 outer edges of the rug have the more grey, cyan and blue tones.  The edges are definitely darker in overall hue than the central portion of the rug. I needed a darker rug, so the overload of cream in the bulk of the center did not work for me. The Quality of this rug is middle of the road. It definitely does not feel like an expensive rug, but it’s not horribly terrible either.  I’m sure I could have gotten a couple years of high traffic use out of it.