The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
The green from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey
Kennebunkport Green
Benjamin Moore · HC-123
The green of a summer house in Maine
In real rooms
Every room, each colorKennebunkport Green
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersKennebunkport Green is the lighter of the two at LRV 31.32, 9.3 points above Calke Green at LRV 22. Calke Green leans neutral where Kennebunkport Green reads warm. Both belong to the greens family. For a whole room, Kennebunkport Green 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.
Kennebunkport Green is a soft, greyed sage-olive from Benjamin Moore's Historical Colors — the green of hedges seen in shade rather than sun. At LRV 31 it is a true mid-tone: a color, not a neutral, but a gentle one that never shouts.