Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Olive Colour
Little Greene · No. 72
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
#626446
Hex
#77866A
98 · 100 · 70
RGB
119 · 134 · 106
Warm
Warmth
Neutral
Olive Colour is warm; Calke Green is neutral.
Deep, muted yellow-green olive; an 18th-century green
Undertone
Muted mid-green with gray and a little yellow; a country-house green
Green
Family
Green
Colours of England
Collection
Colour Card
In real rooms
Every room, each colorOlive Colour
The difference
Read from the numbersOlive Colour leans warm where Calke Green reads neutral. Both belong to the green family.
How they read
In their own wordsOlive Colour is one of Little Greene's Colours of England — a deep, muted yellow-green olive with a history: the brand quotes Mrs Delany, who in the 1700s 'painted her room a sort of olive green for her pictures'. It is rich, earthy and remarkably good behind art.
Calke Green takes its name from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, and it has the settled, slightly faded quality of a color that has been on a wall for two hundred years. It is a mid-tone green with enough grey to stay calm and enough yellow to stay warm — the green of gardens rather than forests.