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
In real rooms
Every room, each colorShelter
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersShelter leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Both belong to the greens 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, 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.