The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Shelter
Portola Paints · Lime Wash
A bedroom the color of moss after rain
Cedar Grove
Benjamin Moore · 444
Sage that reads at a distance
LRV
46.34
#8E9B8A
Hex
#AABBA5
142 · 155 · 138
RGB
170 · 187 · 165
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Mossy grey-green; lichen on stone
Undertone
Soft sage; a grey-green with a little blue in the shade
Greens
Family
Greens
Lime Wash
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorShelter
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read cool. 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.
Cedar Grove is a mid-light sage — green enough to be clearly a color from across the room, grey enough never to look minty. At LRV 46 it sits in the sweet spot for a full-room green: it holds its tone in daylight and softens rather than muddies as the light fades.