The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Window Pane
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6210
Green you can almost see through
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 numbersWindow Pane is the lighter of the two at LRV 72.24, 60.7 points above Aegean Olive at LRV 11.54. Window Pane leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Both belong to the greens family. For a whole room, Window Pane is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Aegean Olive is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsWindow Pane is a pale, silvery green so light — LRV 72 — that in a bright room it reads as a tinted white. The green is there, but it has faded almost to grey, which is what makes it so easy to live with: it cools a room without ever turning it minty.
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.