The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Shelter
Portola Paints · Lime Wash
A bedroom the color of moss after rain
Kennebunkport Green
Benjamin Moore · HC-123
The green of a summer house in Maine
LRV
31.32
#8E9B8A
Hex
#919D82
142 · 155 · 138
RGB
145 · 157 · 130
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Shelter is cool; Kennebunkport Green is warm.
Mossy grey-green; lichen on stone
Undertone
Greyed sage-olive; a garden green in shade
Greens
Family
Greens
Lime Wash
Collection
Historical Colors
In real rooms
Every room, each colorShelter
1 roomKennebunkport Green
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersShelter leans cool where Kennebunkport Green 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.
Kennebunkport Green is a soft, greyed sage-olive from Benjamin Moore's Historical Colors — the green of hedges seen in shade rather than sun. At LRV 31 it is a true mid-tone: a color, not a neutral, but a gentle one that never shouts.