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Settled, side by side
Tranquility
Benjamin Moore · AF-490
Grey with the sea in it
Coat of Arms
Benjamin Moore · 763
The teal that behaves like a navy
In real rooms
Every room, each colorTranquility
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersTranquility is the lighter of the two at LRV 53.31, 38.6 points above Coat of Arms at LRV 14.74. Both read cool. Tranquility is a neutrals, Coat of Arms a blues. For a whole room, Tranquility is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Coat of Arms 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.
Coat of Arms is a deep, grey-tempered teal — blue enough to anchor a room the way a navy would, green enough to feel alive against wood, brass and raffia. At LRV 14.7 it is a genuinely dark color, and that darkness is where its elegance lives: it recedes, it flatters everything placed against it, and it never looks like a color that is trying.
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