The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
Olive with the volume turned all the way down
Tranquility
Benjamin Moore · AF-490
Grey with the sea in it
In real rooms
Every room, each colorTranquility
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersTranquility is the lighter of the two at LRV 53.31, 41.8 points above Aegean Olive at LRV 11.54. Aegean Olive leans warm where Tranquility reads cool. Aegean Olive is a greens, Tranquility a neutrals. For a whole room, Tranquility 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.
Tranquility is a pale grey from Benjamin Moore's Affinity collection with a soft green-blue whisper — the color of sea fog rather than a city sky. At LRV 53 it is a true light-mid tone, and it does exactly what its name suggests: it calms a room without making it cold.
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