The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
The teal that behaves like a navy
Stonington Gray
Benjamin Moore · HC-170
The grey that does not pick a side
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersStonington Gray is the lighter of the two at LRV 59.36, 44.6 points above Coat of Arms at LRV 14.74. Coat of Arms leans cool where Stonington Gray reads neutral. Coat of Arms is a blues, Stonington Gray a grays. For a whole room, Stonington Gray 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.
Stonington Gray is Benjamin Moore's most balanced light grey — neither warm nor cool, with a faint green-blue base that keeps it from going purple, the failing of so many greys. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to read as a color against white trim.