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.
Pale Powder
Farrow & Ball · No. 204
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
LRV
11.54
#D5DAD1
Hex
#5D594C
213 · 218 · 209
RGB
93 · 89 · 76
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Pale Powder is cool; Aegean Olive is warm.
Soft aqua with green pigment, reads grey in north light
Undertone
Grey-brown olive; more khaki and bronze than leaf green
Blue
Family
Green
Colour Card
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersPale Powder leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Pale Powder is a blue, Aegean Olive a green.
How they read
In their own wordsPale Powder No. 204 is Farrow & Ball's most popular shade of aqua, a lighter version of the archived Powder Blue. The brand says it has an unparalleled softness.
Aegean Olive is a deep, grayed 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.