The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
The green from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
The teal that behaves like a navy
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCalke Green is the lighter of the two at LRV 22, 7.3 points above Coat of Arms at LRV 14.74. Calke Green leans neutral where Coat of Arms reads cool. Calke Green is a greens, Coat of Arms a blues. For a whole room, Calke Green is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Coat of Arms 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.
Coat of Arms is a deep, grey-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.