Benjamin Moore Webster Green is a medium dark paint color that is fresh and exuberant. It is a confident paint color that isn’t bright, but definitely isn’t dull either.
Benjamin Moore has recently chosen Webster Green as the 2027 Color of the Year. They claim that it is adaptable, and “can easily layer into any aesthetic and breathe personality into a design.” When I hear this, I think of a deep, rich hunter green, or maybe a light, organic sage green.
But Webster Green is neither of these.
Take a look for yourself and decide whether Webster Green is a “quintessential shade of green” that is ready to be showcased in your home, or whether it is more of a bold Color of the Year choice that garners attention but never really takes off.
Webster Green Color Details
Benjamin Moore Webster Green (HC-130 or Willow Grove 636) is a mid-tone green paint color that blends green with a blue undertone and a hint of yellow.
When you combine these tones, you end up with a paint color that is not quite punchy but is moving in that direction. It is a fresh green that feels historical more than organic.
While it isn’t a blue green, the blue in Webster Green gives it a rich quality, adding a nice complexity to it.
Webster Green has so much depth that it is almost in the dark range of shades. It has an LRV (Light Reflectance Value) of 20. The LRV scale goes from 0-100, so a value of 20 is pretty low. This means that it will absorb a lot more light than it reflects.
In your home, Webster Green will be very saturated. It is going to show up to the party, every time you use it.
Due to its chroma (or the amount of color it has), its not really the sort of shade that will blend into the background. When a paint color does this, it tends to either be really light or to have a good bit of gray in it, and Webster Green doesn’t fit into either of those categories.
Where to Use Webster Green
Webster Green is a paint color that requires you to be very intentional in how you use it. You can’t just throw it up on your walls and expect it to look good.
If you really love this bold green, you can certainly paint a whole room in it. I see this working in a cottage inspired home, in a library or music room, or maybe in a victorian styled living room.
In this AI image, you can get an idea of how Webster Green could look in a living room:
As an accent shade, Webster Green can be used on cabinets or woodwork. I’ve been seeing more and more cabinets painted in greens similar to Webster Green.
Here is an AI rendering of what this could look like:
Webster Green will also work on a home exterior, either as a siding color, or as a door and/or shutter color. It will be a little bit brighter and lighter outside due to the bright sunlight, so be sure to take this into consideration before you paint.
Here is an AI picture of Webster Green on a home exterior, paired with a copper colored room:
Sine all these pictures are AI renderings, the colors are not exactly perfect, but they will give you an idea of how Webster Green could look, and what sort of other colors, metals, and materials you can pair it with.
It looks great with gold and black finishes, but I think it would also work with a brushed silver.
Colors that Go With Webster Green
When Benjamin Moore chose Webster Green as their Color of the Year for 2027, they also chose a number of paint shades to coordinate with it. Here are the paint colors they selected:
- Nelson Blue
- White Down
- Wild Aster
- Shakespeare Tan
- Antique Copper
- Townsend Harbor Brown
- Durango
These paints were selected as a whole coordinating palette of colors that you can mix and match.
In addition to this paint palette that they put together, they also have a few more colors that they recommend for paint palette ideas.
The first color palette includes Webster Green, Glacier White and Elmira White. This color palette pairs soft neutrals with Webster Green for a calming, more sophisticated effect.
The second color palette includes Webster Green, Wild Aster and Cape May Cobblestone. This one is my favorite, because I think that the pink Wild Aster compliments the green in Webster Green while the gray Cape May Cobblestone calms the whole palette down comfortably.
For trim colors, you can either use Webster Green in a color drenching manner, where you paint every surface in the room in the same color, or you could go with a crisp white trim.
A good white trim paint color to coordinate with Webster Green is Chantilly Lace.
Webster Green vs. Other Green Paint Colors
One thing that I definitely agree with Benjamin Moore about: Webster Green will breathe personality into any design. Green has been a big player in the home design world in the last several years, and I think that this trend will continue.
In 2027, greens dominated the Color of the Year picks, with Sherwin Williams, Behr and Benjamin Moore all choosing a shade of green. Sherwin Williams chose a light green called Celery. Behr chose a dark, earthy green called Grounded. You can see all of the 2027 Color of the Year picks here.
If you are on the hunt for the perfect green paint color for your home, some other options to consider are:
- Sherwin Williams Dried Thyme – It has more gray in it than Webster Green, so it takes on a more mature look.
- Sherwin Williams Evergreen Fog – This color less depth, more gray and less blue in it than Webster Green. This makes it more usable.
- A roundup of Sherwin Williams best greens.
- 8 gorgeous greens that includes dark and moody, midtone and earthy, and light sage options.
