The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Kennebunkport Green
Benjamin Moore · HC-123
The green of a summer house in Maine
Shelter
Portola Paints · Lime Wash
A bedroom the color of moss after rain
31.32
LRV
#919D82
Hex
#8E9B8A
145 · 157 · 130
RGB
142 · 155 · 138
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Kennebunkport Green is warm; Shelter is cool.
Greyed sage-olive; a garden green in shade
Undertone
Mossy grey-green; lichen on stone
Greens
Family
Greens
Historical Colors
Collection
Lime Wash
In real rooms
Every room, each colorKennebunkport Green
1 roomShelter
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersKennebunkport Green leans warm where Shelter reads cool. Both belong to the greens 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.
Shelter is a Portola Lime Wash in a mossy grey-green — and because it is a lime wash, not a paint, the color is cloudy and alive, drifting between pale sage and deep moss across a single wall. The finish is chalky and matte, and it takes light the way stone does.