The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
The green from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey
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, 26 points above Calke Green at LRV 22. Calke Green leans neutral where Catalina Blue reads cool. Calke Green 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 Calke Green is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsCalke Green takes its name from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, and it has the settled, slightly faded quality of a color that has been on a wall for two hundred years. It is a mid-tone green with enough grey to stay calm and enough yellow to stay warm — the green of gardens rather than forests.
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.