Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Nantucket Gray

Benjamin Moore · HC-111

Cedar Grove

Benjamin Moore · 444

39.83
LRV
46.34
Cedar Grove is 6.5 points lighter
#AFAB93
Hex
#AABBA5
175 · 171 · 147
RGB
170 · 187 · 165
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Nantucket Gray is warm; Cedar Grove is cool.
Grey-green with a yellow-khaki base; fog over grass
Undertone
Soft sage; a grey-green with a little blue in the shade
Green
Family
Green
Historical Colors
Collection
Classics Color Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Cedar Grove is the lighter of the two at LRV 46.34, 6.5 points above Nantucket Gray at LRV 39.83. Nantucket Gray leans warm where Cedar Grove reads cool. Both belong to the green family. For a whole room, Cedar Grove is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Nantucket Gray is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Nantucket Gray is a Historical Colors grey-green — Benjamin Moore likens it to 'fog settling over grassy fields'. Despite the name it is more sage than grey: a soft, yellow-based green that reads as a neutral once it is on cabinetry.

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.

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