The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
Olive with the volume turned all the way down
Kennebunkport Green
Benjamin Moore · HC-123
The green of a summer house in Maine
In real rooms
Every room, each colorKennebunkport Green
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersKennebunkport Green is the lighter of the two at LRV 31.32, 19.8 points above Aegean Olive at LRV 11.54. Both read warm. Both belong to the greens family. For a whole room, Kennebunkport Green 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.
Kennebunkport Green is a soft, greyed sage-olive from Benjamin Moore's Historical Colors — the green of hedges seen in shade rather than sun. At LRV 31 it is a true mid-tone: a color, not a neutral, but a gentle one that never shouts.