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Settled, side by side

Olive Colour

Little Greene · No. 72

Pine Frost

Sherwin-Williams · SW 9656

LRV
65.148
#626446
Hex
#D0D5CB
98 · 100 · 70
RGB
208 · 213 · 203
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Olive Colour is warm; Pine Frost is cool.
Deep, muted yellow-green olive; an 18th-century green
Undertone
Pale silvery green; mint with the sugar removed
Green
Family
Green
Colours of England
Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Olive Colour leans warm where Pine Frost reads cool. Both belong to the green family.

How they read

In their own words

Olive 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.

Pine Frost is a pale, frosted green that reads almost as a tinted white in bright light and as a soft silvery sage in shade. At LRV 65 it is light enough for a whole bedroom yet has enough pigment to feel like a decision. There is no sweetness in it — the grey keeps it cool and quiet.

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