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Settled, side by side
Tranquility
Benjamin Moore · AF-490
Grey with the sea in it
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
The green from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey
In real rooms
Every room, each colorTranquility
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersTranquility is the lighter of the two at LRV 53.31, 31.3 points above Calke Green at LRV 22. Tranquility leans cool where Calke Green reads neutral. Tranquility is a neutrals, Calke Green a greens. For a whole room, Tranquility is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Calke Green is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsTranquility is a pale grey from Benjamin Moore's Affinity collection with a soft green-blue whisper — the color of sea fog rather than a city sky. At LRV 53 it is a true light-mid tone, and it does exactly what its name suggests: it calms a room without making it cold.
Calke Green takes its name from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, and it has the settled, slightly faded quality of a color that has been on a wall for two hundred years. It is a mid-tone green with enough grey to stay calm and enough yellow to stay warm — the green of gardens rather than forests.
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