New Foliage vs Livid
Where New Foliage belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Livid is a Little Greene color. Hue-wise, New Foliage belongs to the beige-yellow family and Livid to the blue-green family. New Foliage has an LRV of 51. With a ΔE of 32.5, 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 4 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
New Foliage vs Livid in Real Spaces
4 real rooms side by side. Seeing New Foliage 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.
Bedroom
The context that matters most in a bedroom is how a color reads under a bedside lamp at night, not under noon daylight. The distinction reads clearly at room scale, making the choice between them concrete.
Dining Room
A dining room lit by a dimmed pendant or candles is one of the most forgiving environments for paint — warm light softens almost everything. At this scale, the choice between them becomes clear in a way that a swatch alone can't communicate.
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
New Foliage vs Livid Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see New Foliage 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 New Foliage comparisons
See how New Foliage stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
At LRV 69 vs 51, Ammonite is decisively the brighter choice.
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 51), opening up a space where New Foliage encloses it.
New Foliage reflects far more light (LRV 51 vs 6), opening up a space where Iron Ore encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 52 vs 51), so neither reads brighter in a room.
At LRV 51 vs 30, New Foliage is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 52 and 51, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 9-point LRV gap (60 vs 51) makes Agreeable Gray the marginally brighter of the two.
Accessible Beige reads slightly lighter (LRV 58 vs 51), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
New Foliage reflects far more light (LRV 51 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
A 8-point LRV gap (51 vs 43) makes New Foliage the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 51 vs 4, New Foliage is decisively the brighter choice.
Tranquil Dawn reads slightly lighter (LRV 55 vs 51), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
New Foliage reflects far more light (LRV 51 vs 13), opening up a space where Bancha encloses it.
New Foliage reads slightly lighter (LRV 51 vs 44), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 84 vs 51, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 51 vs 21, New Foliage is decisively the brighter choice.
Balboa Mist reflects far more light (LRV 66 vs 51), opening up a space where New Foliage encloses it.
Shoji White reflects far more light (LRV 74 vs 51), opening up a space where New Foliage encloses it.
Snowbound reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 51), opening up a space where New Foliage encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 51 vs 51), so neither reads brighter in a room.
New Foliage reflects far more light (LRV 51 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
New Foliage reflects far more light (LRV 51 vs 8), opening up a space where Duck Green encloses it.
Skimming Stone reflects far more light (LRV 68 vs 51), opening up a space where New Foliage encloses it.
A 10-point LRV gap (51 vs 41) makes New Foliage the marginally brighter of the two.
New Foliage reflects far more light (LRV 51 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
New Foliage reads slightly lighter (LRV 51 vs 45), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 51 vs 31, New Foliage is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 51 vs 7, New Foliage is decisively the brighter choice.