The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
Olive with the volume turned all the way down
Silver Satin
Benjamin Moore · OC-26
The off-white that knows when to disappear
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersSilver Satin is the lighter of the two at LRV 75.3, 63.8 points above Aegean Olive at LRV 11.54. Both read warm. Aegean Olive is a greens, Silver Satin a whites. For a whole room, Silver Satin 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.
Silver Satin is the quiet professional of the off-white world — soft, low-chroma, and just warm enough to never read as stark. In a north-facing room it settles into a calm greige; in afternoon sun it lifts to a clean, milky white without ever turning yellow.