The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
The teal that behaves like a navy
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
Olive with the volume turned all the way down
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCoat of Arms is the lighter of the two at LRV 14.74, 3.2 points above Aegean Olive at LRV 11.54. Coat of Arms leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Coat of Arms is a blues, Aegean Olive a greens. For a whole room, Coat of Arms is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Aegean Olive is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsCoat 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.
Aegean Olive is a deep, greyed olive that sits closer to bronze and khaki than to anything leafy. With an LRV just under 12 it behaves like a dark neutral: it wraps a room, dissolves corners and makes cane, rattan and aged brass look expensive. It is the green you choose when you do not want the room to read as green.