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Settled, side by side
Pelican Gray
Benjamin Moore · 1612
Grey, silver-lined
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
The teal that behaves like a navy
In real rooms
Every room, each colorPelican Gray
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersPelican Gray is the lighter of the two at LRV 58.58, 43.8 points above Coat of Arms at LRV 14.74. Both read cool. Pelican Gray is a grays, Coat of Arms a blues. For a whole room, Pelican Gray 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 wordsPelican Gray is a light, silvery grey with a clear blue lean — cooler than the greiges that dominated the last decade, and all the better for it. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to feel deliberate. It is the grey of a slate roof after rain.
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.