Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Borrowed Light

Farrow & Ball · No. 235

Coat of Arms

Benjamin Moore · 763

LRV
14.74
#D1DADB
Hex
#3C6C7A
209 · 218 · 219
RGB
60 · 108 · 122
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Pale summer-sky blue with a chalky, silvery quality
Undertone
Teal — a blue that has swallowed some green; gray keeps it from turning tropical
Blue
Family
Blue
Colour Card
Collection
Classics Color Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read cool. Both belong to the blue family.

How they read

In their own words

Borrowed Light No. 235 is, in Farrow & Ball's words, a wonderfully pale blue evoking the colour of summer skies, named after the delicate light that cascades through small windows and fanlights.

Coat of Arms is a deep, gray-tempered teal — blue enough to anchor a room the way a navy would, green enough to feel alive against wood, brass and raffia. At LRV 14.7 it is a genuinely dark color, and that darkness is where its elegance lives: it recedes, it flatters everything placed against it, and it never looks like a color that is trying.

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