The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Window Pane
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6210
Green you can almost see through
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
The green from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersWindow Pane is the lighter of the two at LRV 72.24, 50.2 points above Calke Green at LRV 22. Window Pane leans cool where Calke Green reads neutral. Both belong to the greens family. For a whole room, Window Pane is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Calke Green 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.
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.