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Settled, side by side

Coat of Arms

Benjamin Moore · 763

Inventive Orange

Sherwin-Williams · SW 6633

14.74
LRV
42.41
Inventive Orange is 27.7 points lighter
#3C6C7A
Hex
#E89D6F
60 · 108 · 122
RGB
232 · 157 · 111
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Coat of Arms is cool; Inventive Orange is warm.
Teal — a blue that has swallowed some green; gray keeps it from turning tropical
Undertone
Clear apricot orange; warm yellow-red base
Blue
Family
Orange
Classics Color Collection
Collection
Orange

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Inventive Orange is the lighter of the two at LRV 42.41, 27.7 points above Coat of Arms at LRV 14.74. Coat of Arms leans cool where Inventive Orange reads warm. Coat of Arms is a blue, Inventive Orange a orange. For a whole room, Inventive Orange 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 words

Coat of Arms is a deep, gray-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.

Inventive Orange is a mid-light, clear apricot — a genuine orange rather than a terracotta, with a warm yellow-red base. At LRV 42 it is bright enough to lift a room and saturated enough to read as a deliberate choice.

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