The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Cedar Grove
Benjamin Moore · 444
Sage that reads at a distance
Great Barrington Green
Benjamin Moore · HC-122
An heirloom green
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCedar Grove is the lighter of the two at LRV 46.34, 25 points above Great Barrington Green at LRV 21.39. Cedar Grove leans cool where Great Barrington Green reads warm. Both belong to the greens family. For a whole room, Cedar Grove is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Great Barrington Green 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.
Great Barrington Green is one of Benjamin Moore's Historical Colors, and it has the settled, slightly dusty quality the collection is known for — an olive with grey in it and a little yellow warmth, the green of lichen on a stone wall. At LRV 21 it is a mid-dark, strong enough for a full room.