Night Mist vs Livid
Where Night Mist belongs to Benjamin Moore's range, Livid is a Little Greene color. Night Mist reads as green-grey, while Livid reads as blue-green — two distinct hue families, not close cousins. Night Mist has an LRV of 63. Both lean green, so they'll behave similarly in mixed or changing light conditions. With a ΔE of 33.4, the contrast is hard to miss. These aren't variations on a theme — they're two different answers to the same question. Below you'll find 2 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Night Mist vs Livid in Real Spaces
2 real rooms side by side. Seeing Night Mist and Livid in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
Living Room
In a living room, color works across both daylight and evening light — the same wall can read very differently at noon and at 8pm. Side by side like this, the difference is easy to read — which is exactly why seeing them in a real space is more useful than comparing chips.
Bathroom
Bathrooms are one of the few spaces where you're genuinely enclosed by the paint color, which makes the choice between these two more consequential. The distinction reads clearly at room scale, making the choice between them concrete.
Color Details
Night Mist vs Livid Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Night Mist on one side and Livid on the other.
Digital color is approximate. These simulations are generated from the manufacturer's hex values and overlaid on grayscale room photos — your screen's calibration, brightness, and viewing angle all affect how they render. Before committing to either color, test physical samples in your own space under the light you actually live with.
More Night Mist comparisons
See how Night Mist stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
A 6-point LRV gap (69 vs 63) makes Ammonite the marginally brighter of the two.
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 63), opening up a space where Night Mist encloses it.
Night Mist reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 6), opening up a space where Iron Ore encloses it.
A 11-point LRV gap (63 vs 52) makes Night Mist the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 63 vs 30, Night Mist is decisively the brighter choice.
Night Mist reads slightly lighter (LRV 63 vs 52), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 63 vs 60), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Night Mist reads slightly lighter (LRV 63 vs 58), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Night Mist reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
At LRV 63 vs 43, Night Mist is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 63 vs 4, Night Mist is decisively the brighter choice.
Night Mist reads slightly lighter (LRV 63 vs 55), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Night Mist reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 13), opening up a space where Bancha encloses it.
Night Mist reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 44), opening up a space where Hardwick White encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 63, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 63 vs 21, Night Mist is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 66 and 63, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Shoji White reads slightly lighter (LRV 74 vs 63), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Snowbound reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 63), opening up a space where Night Mist encloses it.
At LRV 63 vs 51, Night Mist is decisively the brighter choice.
Night Mist reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
Night Mist reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 8), opening up a space where Duck Green encloses it.
Skimming Stone reads slightly lighter (LRV 68 vs 63), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 63 vs 41, Night Mist is decisively the brighter choice.
Night Mist reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
Night Mist reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 45), opening up a space where Saybrook Sage encloses it.
At LRV 63 vs 31, Night Mist is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 63 vs 7, Night Mist is decisively the brighter choice.