The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
Olive with the volume turned all the way down
Catalina Blue
Benjamin Moore · 703
A coastal blue that leans quietly green
In real rooms
Every room, each colorCatalina Blue
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersCatalina Blue is the lighter of the two at LRV 48, 36.5 points above Aegean Olive at LRV 11.54. Aegean Olive leans warm where Catalina Blue reads cool. Aegean Olive is a greens, Catalina Blue a blues. For a whole room, Catalina Blue is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Aegean Olive is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsAegean Olive is a deep, greyed olive that sits closer to bronze and khaki than to anything leafy. With an LRV just under 12 it behaves like a dark neutral: it wraps a room, dissolves corners and makes cane, rattan and aged brass look expensive. It is the green you choose when you do not want the room to read as green.
Despite the name, Catalina Blue lives in the soft territory where blue meets green. It is a muted, sea-glass color — grey enough to stay calm, green enough to feel coastal — that shifts between blue and sage depending on the light it's given.