Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Kennebunkport Green
Benjamin Moore · HC-123
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
In real rooms
Every room, each colorKennebunkport Green
The difference
Read from the numbersKennebunkport Green leans warm where Calke Green reads neutral. Both belong to the green family.
How they read
In their own wordsKennebunkport Green is a soft, greyed sage-olive from Benjamin Moore's Historical Colors — the green of hedges seen in shade rather than sun. At LRV 31 it is a true mid-tone: a color, not a neutral, but a gentle one that never shouts.
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.