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Settled, side by side

Pleat

Little Greene · No. 280

Aegean Olive

Benjamin Moore · 1491

LRV
11.54
#5F7A75
Hex
#5D594C
95 · 122 · 117
RGB
93 · 89 · 76
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Pleat is cool; Aegean Olive is warm.
Deep teal-green with grey; the color of old copper roofs
Undertone
Grey-brown olive; more khaki and bronze than leaf green
Green
Family
Green
Colour Scales
Collection
Classics Color Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Pleat leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Both belong to the green family.

How they read

In their own words

Pleat is a deep, grey-softened teal from Little Greene — blue-green with enough grey to feel tailored rather than tropical. It is the color of a copper roof that has weathered for a century, and it is one of the best colors there is for tongue-and-groove panelling.

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.

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