Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Shelter
Portola Paints · Lime Wash
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
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
Green
Family
Green
Lime Wash
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorShelter
The difference
Read from the numbersShelter leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Both belong to the green family.
How they read
In their own wordsShelter 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, 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.