Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Coat of Arms

Benjamin Moore · 763

Stiffkey Blue

Farrow & Ball · No. 281

14.74
LRV
#3C6C7A
Hex
#4A5B6B
60 · 108 · 122
RGB
74 · 91 · 107
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Teal — a blue that has swallowed some green; gray keeps it from turning tropical
Undertone
Inky navy; brighter and cleaner than Hague Blue, heads to blue-black in low light
Blue
Family
Blue
Classics Color Collection
Collection
Colour Card

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read cool. Both belong to the blue family.

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.

Stiffkey Blue is Farrow & Ball's deep, inky navy — named for the Norfolk village whose beach mud takes on this colour at low tide. It is traditional in spirit but reads modern next to Down Pipe, with just enough grey to stop it looking like a school uniform.

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