Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Catalina Blue

Benjamin Moore · 703

Inventive Orange

Sherwin-Williams · SW 6633

48
LRV
42.41
Catalina Blue is 5.6 points lighter
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Hex
#E89D6F
173 · 188 · 179
RGB
232 · 157 · 111
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Catalina Blue is cool; Inventive Orange is warm.
Soft blue-green, a sage lean
Undertone
Clear apricot orange; warm yellow-red base
Blue
Family
Orange
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Collection
Orange

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Catalina Blue is the lighter of the two at LRV 48, 5.6 points above Inventive Orange at LRV 42.41. Catalina Blue leans cool where Inventive Orange reads warm. Catalina Blue is a blue, Inventive Orange a orange. For a whole room, Catalina Blue is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Inventive Orange is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Despite 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.

Inventive Orange is a mid-light, clear apricot — a genuine orange rather than a terracotta, with a warm yellow-red base. At LRV 42 it is bright enough to lift a room and saturated enough to read as a deliberate choice.

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