Yellow

With an LRV of about 93, Yellow reflects most of the light that reaches it. It keeps a north-facing or dim room bright, and in strong sun it can look whiter than the chip. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Yellow in other brands

• Warm Sun Behr PPL-10 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Villa Del Sol Berger Paints 3P0753 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Light Mist Dunn-Edwards DE5476 Beige Very close ΔE 0.7
• Lyonnaise Dulux Australia SP2F1 Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Lemon Stick Vista C-844 Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Hush Hallman Lindsay 824 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Geddy Benjamin Moore CW-20 Beige

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as beige
• Protanopia Reads as beige
• Tritanopia Reads as white
• Achromatopsia Reads as white

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns light orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns light yellow
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Yellow warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 13.0 and a value of -3.0 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Yellow?

Warm Sun (PPL-10), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Yellow?

≈ 93. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.