The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Cedar Grove

Benjamin Moore · 444

Sage that reads at a distance

Shelter

Portola Paints · Lime Wash

A bedroom the color of moss after rain

46.34
LRV
#AABBA5
Hex
#8E9B8A
170 · 187 · 165
RGB
142 · 155 · 138
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Soft sage; a grey-green with a little blue in the shade
Undertone
Mossy grey-green; lichen on stone
Greens
Family
Greens
Classics Color Collection
Collection
Lime Wash

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read cool. Both belong to the greens family.

How they read

In their own words

Cedar 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.

Shelter is a Portola Lime Wash in a mossy grey-green — and because it is a lime wash, not a paint, the color is cloudy and alive, drifting between pale sage and deep moss across a single wall. The finish is chalky and matte, and it takes light the way stone does.

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