The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Catalina Blue
Benjamin Moore · 703
A coastal blue that leans quietly green
Stonington Gray
Benjamin Moore · HC-170
The grey that does not pick a side
In real rooms
Every room, each colorCatalina Blue
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersStonington Gray is the lighter of the two at LRV 59.36, 11.4 points above Catalina Blue at LRV 48. Catalina Blue leans cool where Stonington Gray reads neutral. Catalina Blue is a blues, Stonington Gray a grays. For a whole room, Stonington Gray is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Catalina Blue 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.
Stonington Gray is Benjamin Moore's most balanced light grey — neither warm nor cool, with a faint green-blue base that keeps it from going purple, the failing of so many greys. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to read as a color against white trim.