Evening Dove (BM 2128-30) vs Hale Navy (BM HC-154)
Illustrative room. Screen colors vary; test a sample before you paint.
Quick decision
- Lighter
- Evening Dove, LRV 12 vs 8.4.
- Warmer
- Hale Navy, both blue-gray (Lab b* -7.6 vs -8.6).
- North rooms
- Evening Dove keeps more brightness (L* 33.8 vs 27.7 in north light); both drift gray about equally.
- Trim that works
- White Heaven BM 2068-70, #E2E5F1, LRV 76.7: the Benjamin Moore white closest in hue to both.
- Closeness
- deltaE 5.3, clearly different. At 5.3, treat them as different colors.
See each color
Evening Dove (BM 2128-30) is slightly lighter than Hale Navy (BM HC-154) and slightly cooler: LRV 12 vs 8.4, deltaE 5.3 (clearly different).
Side by side
| Measure | Evening Dove | Hale Navy | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brand | Benjamin Moore | Benjamin Moore | |
| Color code | 2128-30 | HC-154 | |
| Hex | #515A67 | #434B56 | |
| RGB | 81, 90, 103 | 67, 75, 86 | |
| HSL | 215°, 12%, 36% | 215°, 12%, 30% | |
| LRV (light reflectance value) | 12 | 8.4 | +3.7 |
| Lab L* | 37.9 | 31.6 | +6.4 |
| Lab a* | -0.4 | -0.5 | +0.1 |
| Lab b* | -8.6 | -7.6 | −1.1 |
| Undertone | Cool | Cool Gray | |
| Temperature | cool | cool | |
| Color family | Blue | Blue |
Same paint, two kinds of light
Evening Dove (BM 2128-30), published as #515A67
#405165
#626367
Hale Navy (BM HC-154), published as #434B56
#324354
#535356
These swatches and the rooms above are a simulation, not a measurement. How the visualizer works
Which should you pick
Rules of thumb computed from the LRV and Lab values in the table above; no room test was done.
- Pick Evening Dove (BM 2128-30) for a small room or a north-facing room, because it is 3.7 LRV points lighter (12 vs 8.4), so it bounces back more of the limited light
- Pick Evening Dove (BM 2128-30) for a south-facing room, because its Lab b* is -8.6 against -7.6, so it is the cooler of the two and offsets warm direct sun
- Pick Hale Navy (BM HC-154) to warm a north-facing room, because it is the warmer of the two (Lab b* -7.6), which counters cool indirect light
Closest matches to Evening Dove in other brands
Closest matches to Hale Navy in other brands
Common questions
- Is Evening Dove the same color as Hale Navy?
- They are clearly different: a CIEDE2000 difference of 5.3. Evening Dove and Hale Navy are different colors.
- Which is lighter, Evening Dove or Hale Navy?
- Evening Dove, with an LRV of 12 against 8.4.
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Sources: Evening Dove: LRV and hex as published by the manufacturer, via PaintDB (CC BY 4.0); Hale Navy: LRV and hex from Benjamin Moore technical data (verified 2026-10-02). Color differences are CIEDE2000 values computed by this site from the hex values (data snapshot 2026-10-01). Color names and codes belong to their manufacturers.