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How it reads
Van Alen Green HC-120 is a pale green from Benjamin Moore's Historical Colors. The brand says bright, clean undertones give this pastel green an ultra-fresh quality. Its LRV is 64.32.
Colour bloggers note a touch of blue in it: Rebecca West of Happy Starts at Home calls it fresh, even a little minty. Benjamin Moore pairs it with White Dove for trim.
What Van Alen Green is
Van Alen Green is a pastel green from Benjamin Moore's Historical Colors. The brand says bright, clean undertones give it an ultra-fresh quality, and lists an LRV of 64.32.
It is light enough to use on all four walls without the room feeling heavy, but it reads clearly green rather than as a tinted white.
Its undertone
Bloggers consistently find a touch of blue in it. Rebecca West of Happy Starts at Home describes it as fresh, even a little minty, and Paint Color Consultants calls it slightly cool.
Renee of Renee Renovates calls it the lighter cousin of Benjamin Moore's Kittery Point Green.
How it behaves in light
It holds up in low light. Renee Renovates suggests trying it in a shaded room, and Happy Starts at Home found it warmed up a big but dark basement room.
In the Greg Natale bedroom on this page, photographed by Anson Smart, it reads as a soft sage-green around an arched alcove bed.
What it sits next to
Benjamin Moore pairs it with White Dove OC-17 for trim, with Van Courtland Blue HC-145, Distant Gray OC-68 and Fieldstone 1558.
On this site, compare it with Great Barrington Green, Sea Salt and Wythe Blue.
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