Yellow

With an LRV of about 71, 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

• Plastic Lime Behr T15-15 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.4
• Lightning Bug Dunn-Edwards DE5465 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.4
• Canary Yellow Glidden PPG1215-4 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.5
• Canary Yellow PPG 1215-4 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.5
• Fresh Lemonade Johnstone's Yellow Very close ΔE 0.6
• Hempel 25820 Hempel Yellow Very close ΔE 0.7

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• San Benjamin Moore 360 Light Yellow
• Firefly Benjamin Moore 299 Light Orange

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Yellow warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 53.9 and a value of -8.1 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Yellow?

Plastic Lime (T15-15), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Yellow?

≈ 71. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.