Cucumber Salad
562 · #C0DEBF · LRV 66 — cool green tone, light — bounces daylight without going clinical.
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What Color Is Cucumber Salad, Really?
Cucumber Salad reads as a cool green tone — light — bounces daylight without going clinical. The notes below cover how Benjamin Moore 562 behaves in different light and the closest matches at competing US brands.
Best Rooms and Uses for Cucumber Salad
Cucumber Salad 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 Cucumber Salad
At LRV 66, Cucumber Salad 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 Cucumber Salad 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.
Need It From Another Brand?
Any paint counter can custom-tint Benjamin Moore 562 directly. If you would rather stay in one brand's own deck, these are the closest stock matches, measured as ΔE2000. Under 2 is a difference you will not see on the wall.
| Brand | Closest color | ΔE | LRV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behr | GalwayM390-3 · Behr | 1.7 | 67 | Color page → |
| Valspar | Crocodile Dreams5007-5A · Valspar | 3.8 | 67.7 | Color page → |
| PPG / Glidden | DreamcatcherPPG1131-3 · PPG / Glidden | 2.4 | 68 | Color page → |
| Glidden | Pastorale Jade70GY 65/166 · Glidden | 1.9 | 65 | Color page → |
| Dutch Boy | Springy Green228-2DB · Dutch Boy | 4.4 | 67 | Color page → |
| Dunn-Edwards | Mother NatureDE5625 · Dunn-Edwards | 1.8 | 63 | Color page → |
Similar Benjamin Moore Colors
The nearest shades to Cucumber Salad within Benjamin Moore'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 #C0DEBF in HSL space. Pair Cucumber Salad with one accent and one neutral — the swatches below are starting points, not final picks.
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