The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
The teal that behaves like a navy
Sea Salt
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6204
The color of sea glass
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersSea Salt is the lighter of the two at LRV 63, 48.3 points above Coat of Arms at LRV 14.74. Both read cool. Coat of Arms is a blues, Sea Salt a greens. For a whole room, Sea Salt 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 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.
Sea Salt is a soft green-grey that changes its mind with the light: green in a sunny room, blue-grey in a shaded one. At LRV 63 it is light enough for a whole room and quiet enough to live with for years, which is why it has become a modern classic for bedrooms and bathrooms.