Softened Green

With an LRV of about 49, Softened Green is a mid tone: it absorbs more light than it reflects, so it reads deeper on a large wall than on the chip. It suits accent walls and well-lit rooms. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Softened Green in other brands

• Vert de Terre Farrow & Ball 234 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Pale Green Jotun 8478 Beige Very close ΔE 0.7
• Restful Behr 400F-4 Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Immersion C2 Paint C2-944 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Side Kick Johnstone's Green Very close ΔE 1.0
• New Neutral Dulux Australia S19B2 Beige Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Liveable Green Sherwin-Williams 6176 Beige
• Clary Sage Sherwin-Williams 6178 Beige

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as beige
• Protanopia Reads as beige
• Tritanopia Reads as light gray
• Achromatopsia Reads as light gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns yellow
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Softened Green warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 10.5 and a value of -4.0 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Farrow & Ball color to Softened Green?

Vert de Terre (234), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Softened Green?

≈ 49. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.