The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
The green from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey
Little Falls
Benjamin Moore · 1621
Faded denim for the walls
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersLittle Falls is the lighter of the two at LRV 41.07, 19.1 points above Calke Green at LRV 22. Calke Green leans neutral where Little Falls reads cool. Calke Green is a greens, Little Falls a blues. For a whole room, Little Falls 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.
Little Falls is a mid-tone, grey-softened blue with the ease of well-worn denim. At LRV 41 it holds its color in daylight without ever becoming bright, and its grey base keeps it from reading as nursery blue. It is calm without being cold.