The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Catalina Blue
Benjamin Moore · 703
A coastal blue that leans quietly green
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
The green from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey
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. Catalina Blue leans cool where Calke Green reads neutral. Catalina Blue is a blues, Calke Green a greens. 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 wordsDespite 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.
Calke 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.