The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Little Falls
Benjamin Moore · 1621
Faded denim for the walls
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
Olive with the volume turned all the way down
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersLittle Falls is the lighter of the two at LRV 41.07, 29.5 points above Aegean Olive at LRV 11.54. Little Falls leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Little Falls is a blues, Aegean Olive a greens. For a whole room, Little Falls is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Aegean Olive is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsLittle Falls is a mid-tone, grey-softened blue with the ease of well-worn denim. At LRV 41 it holds its color in daylight without ever becoming bright, and its grey base keeps it from reading as nursery blue. It is calm without being cold.
Aegean Olive is a deep, greyed olive that sits closer to bronze and khaki than to anything leafy. With an LRV just under 12 it behaves like a dark neutral: it wraps a room, dissolves corners and makes cane, rattan and aged brass look expensive. It is the green you choose when you do not want the room to read as green.