Yellow

With an LRV of about 66, Yellow 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.

Yellow in other brands

• IKEA107 IKEA Yellow Very close ΔE 0.4
• Butter Milk Tikkurila H392 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.9
• Beeswax .02 Colorhouse Beeswax-02 Yellow Very close ΔE 1.0
• Hempel 24092 Hempel Yellow Very close ΔE 1.0
• Soft Gold Glidden 30YY 64/331 Light Orange Very close ΔE 1.2
• Shine C2 Paint C2-623 Yellow Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Morning Benjamin Moore 2018-50 Light Yellow
• Wythe Benjamin Moore CW-420 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 light orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns light orange
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Yellow warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 33.9 and a value of 1.3 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest IKEA color to Yellow?

IKEA107 (107), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Yellow?

≈ 66. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.