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.
Silver Metallic
Meoded · Decorative plaster
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
LRV
11.54
#B7B4AE
Hex
#5D594C
183 · 180 · 174
RGB
93 · 89 · 76
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Silver Metallic is cool; Aegean Olive is warm.
Warm pewter with a pearl sheen; the color changes as you move
Undertone
Grey-brown olive; more khaki and bronze than leaf green
Gray
Family
Green
Decorative finishes
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersSilver Metallic leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Silver Metallic is a gray, Aegean Olive a green.
How they read
In their own wordsSilver Metallic is a Meoded decorative plaster rather than a flat paint — a pewter-toned finish with a pearl sheen that shifts as you move through the room. In daylight it reads as a soft warm grey; at night, with candles and lamps, it glimmers like brushed metal.
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.