The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Pleat

Little Greene · No. 280

Teal in a tweed jacket

Cedar Grove

Benjamin Moore · 444

Sage that reads at a distance

LRV
46.34
#5F7A75
Hex
#AABBA5
95 · 122 · 117
RGB
170 · 187 · 165
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Deep teal-green with grey; the color of old copper roofs
Undertone
Soft sage; a grey-green with a little blue in the shade
Greens
Family
Greens
Colour Scales
Collection
Classics Color Collection

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

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.

Cedar Grove is a mid-light sage — green enough to be clearly a color from across the room, grey enough never to look minty. At LRV 46 it sits in the sweet spot for a full-room green: it holds its tone in daylight and softens rather than muddies as the light fades.

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