Yellow

With an LRV of about 78, 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

• Spanish Omelet Berger Paints 3T0797 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.9
• Sweet Corn Resene Light Yellow Very close ΔE 1.1
• Sunny Fields Nippon Paint NP YO 2564P Light Yellow Very close ΔE 1.2
• TVT V301 Tikkurila Light Yellow Very close ΔE 1.2
• Quack Quack Dunn-Edwards DE5346 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 1.5
• Citrus Punch PPG 1212-5 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 1.6

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Sundance Benjamin Moore 2022-50 Light Yellow
• Yellow Benjamin Moore 370 Yellow

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Yellow warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 48.3 and a value of -6.3 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Berger Paints color to Yellow?

Spanish Omelet (3T0797), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Yellow?

≈ 78. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.