The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Kennebunkport Green
Benjamin Moore · HC-123
The green of a summer house in Maine
Cedar Grove
Benjamin Moore · 444
Sage that reads at a distance
In real rooms
Every room, each colorKennebunkport Green
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersCedar Grove is the lighter of the two at LRV 46.34, 15 points above Kennebunkport Green at LRV 31.32. Kennebunkport Green leans warm where Cedar Grove reads cool. Both belong to the greens family. For a whole room, Cedar Grove is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Kennebunkport Green is the bolder pick.
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.
Cedar Grove is a mid-light sage — green enough to be clearly a color from across the room, grey enough never to look minty. At LRV 46 it sits in the sweet spot for a full-room green: it holds its tone in daylight and softens rather than muddies as the light fades.