The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Pleat
Little Greene · No. 280
Teal in a tweed jacket
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
The teal that behaves like a navy
In real rooms
Every room, each colorPleat
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read cool. Pleat is a greens, Coat of Arms a blues.
How they read
In their own wordsPleat 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.
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.