The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Pine Frost

Sherwin-Williams · SW 9656

Mint for grown-ups

Shelter

Portola Paints · Lime Wash

A bedroom the color of moss after rain

65
LRV
#D0D5CB
Hex
#8E9B8A
208 · 213 · 203
RGB
142 · 155 · 138
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Pale silvery green; mint with the sugar removed
Undertone
Mossy grey-green; lichen on stone
Greens
Family
Greens
Collection
Lime Wash

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read cool. Both belong to the greens family.

How they read

In their own words

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.

Shelter is a Portola Lime Wash in a mossy grey-green — and because it is a lime wash, not a paint, the color is cloudy and alive, drifting between pale sage and deep moss across a single wall. The finish is chalky and matte, and it takes light the way stone does.

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