Garden Path vs Nocturnal Green
Garden Path is a Sherwin-Williams color while Nocturnal Green comes from Valspar. Hue-wise, Garden Path belongs to the beige-greige family and Nocturnal Green to the blue-green family. With LRVs of 5 and 3, they'll behave almost identically in terms of how much light they reflect back into a room. At ΔE 14.8, these are genuinely distinct colors — a strong contrast if used together, or a meaningful choice between two different directions. Below you'll find 3 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Garden Path vs Nocturnal Green in Real Spaces
3 real rooms side by side. Seeing Garden Path and Nocturnal Green in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
Bathroom
Bathrooms amplify color — the enclosed space and reflective surfaces make what reads subtle elsewhere feel more present here. 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.
House
At full exterior scale, the difference between these two colors becomes much easier to judge than from a small chip. 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.
Front Door
Front doors are seen in isolation against the rest of the facade, which makes them a high-stakes surface where even subtle differences matter. At this scale, the choice between them becomes clear in a way that a swatch alone can't communicate.
Color Details
Garden Path vs Nocturnal Green Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Garden Path on one side and Nocturnal 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 Garden Path comparisons
See how Garden Path stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
At LRV 69 vs 5, Ammonite is decisively the brighter choice.
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With LRVs of 6 and 5, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
At LRV 52 vs 5, Purbeck Stone is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 30 vs 5, Evergreen Fog is decisively the brighter choice.
Mizzle reflects far more light (LRV 52 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
At LRV 60 vs 5, Agreeable Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Accessible Beige reflects far more light (LRV 58 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
Denim Drift reflects far more light (LRV 27 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
At LRV 43 vs 5, French Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 5 vs 4), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Tranquil Dawn reflects far more light (LRV 55 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
Bancha reads slightly lighter (LRV 13 vs 5), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Hardwick White reflects far more light (LRV 44 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 5, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 21 vs 5, Artichoke is decisively the brighter choice.
Balboa Mist reflects far more light (LRV 66 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
Shoji White reflects far more light (LRV 74 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
Snowbound reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
At LRV 51 vs 5, Pigeon is decisively the brighter choice.
Pewter Green reads slightly lighter (LRV 12 vs 5), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 8 and 5, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Skimming Stone reflects far more light (LRV 68 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
At LRV 41 vs 5, Dix Blue is decisively the brighter choice.
Vintage Vogue reads slightly lighter (LRV 12 vs 5), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Saybrook Sage reflects far more light (LRV 45 vs 5), opening up a space where Garden Path encloses it.
At LRV 31 vs 5, Pale Green is decisively the brighter choice.