The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Little Falls
Benjamin Moore · 1621
Faded denim for the walls
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
The teal that behaves like a navy
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersLittle Falls is the lighter of the two at LRV 41.07, 26.3 points above Coat of Arms at LRV 14.74. Both read cool. Both belong to the blues family. For a whole room, Little Falls is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Coat of Arms 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.
Coat of Arms is a deep, grey-tempered teal — blue enough to anchor a room the way a navy would, green enough to feel alive against wood, brass and raffia. At LRV 14.7 it is a genuinely dark color, and that darkness is where its elegance lives: it recedes, it flatters everything placed against it, and it never looks like a color that is trying.