Budding Green
Benjamin Moore's Budding Green is a green shade whose quieter details emerge through comparison. An LRV of 59.6 places it through the middle of the scale, where color and depth can remain visible as the light changes. Its related shades below reveal where the color harmonizes—and where contrast brings it fully to life.
Hex
#C8D0B7LRV
59.65
Budding Green in Rooms
Follow Budding Green from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 1 sourced room photo offers a closer look at the color in lived-in settings.
1 Dining Room Photo
In a gathering space that can move from daylight to ceremony, the most interesting quality of Budding Green (CSP-790) may be the way it responds to timber, table linen, glass and artwork. Its green undertone may become clearest at the boundary between paint and a contrasting finish.
Dining room walls in Budding Green create an intimate, nature-inspired setting.
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Coordinating Colors
Classic Gray reflects far more light (LRV 74 vs 60), opening up a space where Budding Green encloses it.
Sweet Celadon reads slightly lighter (LRV 71 vs 60), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Budding Green reflects far more light (LRV 60 vs 11), opening up a space where Jungle Canopy encloses it.
Simply White reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 60), opening up a space where Budding Green encloses it.
Similar Colors
A 5-point LRV gap (64 vs 60) makes Van Alen Green the marginally brighter of the two.
Pine Barrens reads slightly lighter (LRV 66 vs 60), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Budding Green reads slightly lighter (LRV 60 vs 56), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 5-point LRV gap (65 vs 60) makes Jack and the Beanstalk the marginally brighter of the two.
Complementary Colors
Budding Green reflects far more light (LRV 60 vs 9), opening up a space where Approaching Storm encloses it.
Budding Green reads slightly lighter (LRV 60 vs 55), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 60 vs 6, Budding Green is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 60 vs 13, Budding Green is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 60 vs 8, Budding Green is decisively the brighter choice.
Budding Green reflects far more light (LRV 60 vs 26), opening up a space where Spring Purple encloses it.
At LRV 60 vs 10, Budding Green is decisively the brighter choice.
Lighter Colors
A 5-point LRV gap (64 vs 60) makes Par Four the marginally brighter of the two.
Sweet Celadon reads slightly lighter (LRV 71 vs 60), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 73 vs 60, Fresh Dew is decisively the brighter choice.
Darker Colors
Budding Green reads slightly lighter (LRV 60 vs 51), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Budding Green reads slightly lighter (LRV 60 vs 56), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 60 vs 39, Budding Green is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 60 vs 43, Budding Green is decisively the brighter choice.
Budding Green reads slightly lighter (LRV 60 vs 56), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
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Picture the first green shoots on a drizzly spring day. Now imagine it in your room.