The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
The green from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey
Sea Salt
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6204
The color of sea glass
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersSea Salt is the lighter of the two at LRV 63, 41 points above Calke Green at LRV 22. Calke Green leans neutral where Sea Salt reads cool. Both belong to the greens family. For a whole room, Sea Salt 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.
Sea Salt is a soft green-grey that changes its mind with the light: green in a sunny room, blue-grey in a shaded one. At LRV 63 it is light enough for a whole room and quiet enough to live with for years, which is why it has become a modern classic for bedrooms and bathrooms.