The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Great Barrington Green
Benjamin Moore · HC-122
An heirloom green
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
The green from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCalke Green is the lighter of the two at LRV 22, 0.6 points above Great Barrington Green at LRV 21.39. Great Barrington Green leans warm where Calke Green reads neutral. Both belong to the greens family. For a whole room, Calke Green is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Great Barrington Green is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsGreat Barrington Green is one of Benjamin Moore's Historical Colors, and it has the settled, slightly dusty quality the collection is known for — an olive with grey in it and a little yellow warmth, the green of lichen on a stone wall. At LRV 21 it is a mid-dark, strong enough for a full room.
Calke Green takes its name from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, and it has the settled, slightly faded quality of a color that has been on a wall for two hundred years. It is a mid-tone green with enough grey to stay calm and enough yellow to stay warm — the green of gardens rather than forests.