The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Shelter

Portola Paints · Lime Wash

A bedroom the color of moss after rain

Aegean Olive

Benjamin Moore · 1491

Olive with the volume turned all the way down

LRV
11.54
#8E9B8A
Hex
#5D594C
142 · 155 · 138
RGB
93 · 89 · 76
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Shelter is cool; Aegean Olive is warm.
Mossy grey-green; lichen on stone
Undertone
Grey-brown olive; more khaki and bronze than leaf green
Greens
Family
Greens
Lime Wash
Collection
Classics Color Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

Shelter

1 room
ShelterPortola Limewash
All 1 room

Aegean Olive

5 rooms
Design bySamantha Fischer Studio
Design bySamantha Fischer Studio
Design bySamantha Fischer Studio
Design bySamantha Fischer Studio
Design bySamantha Fischer Studio
All 5 rooms

The difference

Read from the numbers

Shelter leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Both belong to the greens family.

How they read

In their own words

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.

Aegean Olive is a deep, greyed 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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