Sweet Pea vs Duck Green
Where Sweet Pea belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Duck Green is a Farrow & Ball color. Hue-wise, Sweet Pea belongs to the pink-red family and Duck Green to the green-grey family. Sweet Pea (LRV 76) reflects noticeably more light than Duck Green (LRV 8), a difference of 68 points that becomes especially apparent in rooms with limited natural light. With a ΔE of 59.9, 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 5 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Sweet Pea vs Duck Green in Real Spaces
5 real rooms side by side. Seeing Sweet Pea and Duck Green 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. The LRV gap is large enough that Sweet Pea will make the room feel meaningfully brighter than Duck Green would.
Bedroom
The context that matters most in a bedroom is how a color reads under a bedside lamp at night, not under noon daylight. Sweet Pea reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Duck Green.
Kitchen
In a kitchen, colors are seen under bright task lighting that amplifies undertones — what reads neutral elsewhere can show its hand here. Sweet Pea reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Duck Green.
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. Sweet Pea returns significantly more light to the room — in a smaller or darker space, that difference in perceived brightness is hard to miss.
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. Sweet Pea reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Duck Green.
Color Details
Sweet Pea vs Duck Green Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Sweet Pea on one side and Duck Green 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 Sweet Pea comparisons
See how Sweet Pea stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
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Sweet Pea reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
Sweet Pea reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 60), opening up a space where Agreeable Gray encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 58, Sweet Pea is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 27, Sweet Pea is decisively the brighter choice.
Sweet Pea reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 55, Sweet Pea is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 44, Sweet Pea is decisively the brighter choice.
Pure White reads slightly lighter (LRV 84 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 10-point LRV gap (76 vs 66) makes Sweet Pea the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 76 vs 74), so neither reads brighter in a room.
At LRV 76 vs 12, Sweet Pea is decisively the brighter choice.
A 8-point LRV gap (76 vs 68) makes Sweet Pea the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 76 vs 12, Sweet Pea is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 45, Sweet Pea is decisively the brighter choice.
Sweet Pea reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.
Sweet Pea reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 7), opening up a space where Pine Needle encloses it.