Garden View
470D-4 · #83DF8C · LRV 59 — cool green tone, light — bounces daylight without going clinical.
- 1Evergreen Fog30
- 2Clary Sage41
- 3Garden View59
- 4Hancock Green66
- 5Alabaster82
What Color Is Garden View, Really?
Garden View reads as a cool green tone — light — bounces daylight without going clinical. The notes below cover how Behr 470D-4 behaves in different light and the closest matches at competing US brands.
Best Rooms and Uses for Garden View
Garden View is an easy whole-room color for living spaces and bedrooms, and light enough to carry onto trim or a ceiling if you want a soft, seamless look. Greens bridge indoors and out, so they suit living rooms, kitchens and sunrooms.
How Lighting Changes Garden View
At LRV 59, Garden View is a light color that bounces daylight around a room without tipping into stark white. Its green undertone is the part to watch: it gets picked up by whatever sits next to it, so test it against your trim, floor and the room's main light before committing. It holds its undertone in most exposures, which is what makes light shades like this so forgiving room to room.
Most complaints about Garden View are a light mismatch. Upload a photo of your actual room and see it on your walls — then ask for the same wall in north light or evening lamps before you buy a single sample.
Similar Behr Colors
The nearest shades to Garden View within Behr's own range, ranked by perceptual color distance — useful when you want the same look a touch lighter, darker, or warmer.
WCAG 2.1: AA is 4.5 : 1 for normal text, 3 : 1 for large text, AAA is 7 : 1.
Coordinated palette
Generated by hue-rotating #83DF8C in HSL space. Pair Garden View with one accent and one neutral — the swatches below are starting points, not final picks.
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