Straw

With an LRV of about 60, Straw reflects a little over half the light that reaches it, so it stays light in a north-facing room without looking stark. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Straw in other brands

• Thousand Palms Kelly-Moore KM496-M Yellow Very close ΔE 0.5
• Waxen Yellow Pratt & Lambert 15-26 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.6
• Forest Light Jotun 11228 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.7
• B9621D Crown Yellow Very close ΔE 0.7
• Gabriel's Light Vista C-321 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.8
• Ancestral Gold Sherwin-Williams 6407 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.8

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Golden Benjamin Moore 2152-50 Light Yellow
• Splendor Benjamin Moore AF-385 Yellow

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as yellow
• Protanopia Reads as yellow
• Tritanopia Reads as pink
• Achromatopsia Reads as light gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Straw warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 22.0 and a value of -0.6 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Straw?

Thousand Palms (KM496-M), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Straw?

≈ 60. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.