Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Sea Salt

Sherwin-Williams · SW 6204

Olive Colour

Little Greene · No. 72

63.233
LRV
#CDD2CA
Hex
#626446
205 · 210 · 202
RGB
98 · 100 · 70
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Sea Salt is cool; Olive Colour is warm.
Pale green-grey that shifts toward blue in cool light; the color of sea glass
Undertone
Deep, muted yellow-green olive; an 18th-century green
Green
Family
Green
Collection
Colours of England

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Sea Salt leans cool where Olive Colour reads warm. Both belong to the green family.

How they read

In their own words

Sea Salt is a soft green-grey that changes its mind with the light: green in a sunny room, blue-grey in a shaded one. At LRV 63 it is light enough for a whole room and quiet enough to live with for years, which is why it has become a modern classic for bedrooms and bathrooms.

Olive Colour is one of Little Greene's Colours of England — a deep, muted yellow-green olive with a history: the brand quotes Mrs Delany, who in the 1700s 'painted her room a sort of olive green for her pictures'. It is rich, earthy and remarkably good behind art.

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