The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Cedar Grove
Benjamin Moore · 444
Sage that reads at a distance
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
The teal that behaves like a navy
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCedar Grove is the lighter of the two at LRV 46.34, 31.6 points above Coat of Arms at LRV 14.74. Both read cool. Cedar Grove is a greens, Coat of Arms a blues. For a whole room, Cedar Grove is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Coat of Arms is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsCedar Grove is a mid-light sage — green enough to be clearly a color from across the room, grey enough never to look minty. At LRV 46 it sits in the sweet spot for a full-room green: it holds its tone in daylight and softens rather than muddies as the light fades.
Coat of Arms is a deep, grey-tempered teal — blue enough to anchor a room the way a navy would, green enough to feel alive against wood, brass and raffia. At LRV 14.7 it is a genuinely dark color, and that darkness is where its elegance lives: it recedes, it flatters everything placed against it, and it never looks like a color that is trying.