The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Tundra
Benjamin Moore · 2133-70
A white that keeps its cool
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
Olive with the volume turned all the way down
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersTundra is the lighter of the two at LRV 77.07, 65.5 points above Aegean Olive at LRV 11.54. Tundra leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Tundra is a whites, Aegean Olive a greens. For a whole room, Tundra is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Aegean Olive is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsTundra is the off-white for people who find most whites too creamy. Its LRV of 77 puts it in soft-white territory, but the base is a cool, faintly green-blue grey, so it reads clean and quiet rather than warm. On plaster mouldings and in rooms with a lot of daylight it looks like fresh air.
Aegean Olive is a deep, greyed 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.