Banana Cream

With an LRV of about 75, Banana Cream 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. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Banana Cream in other brands

• Dusty Yellow PPG 1209-3 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.3
• Dusty Yellow Glidden PPG1209-3 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.3
• Pasta Dunn-Edwards DE5331 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.4
• Smooth As Corn Silk Kelly-Moore KM5172-1 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.6
• Drop Of Gold KILZ LE160-01 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.7
• Ginster 115 Caparol 3D Ginster 115 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Honied White Sherwin-Williams 7106 Beige
• Pale Moss Sherwin-Williams 9027 Yellow

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as light yellow
• Protanopia Reads as light 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 Banana Cream warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 26.0 and a value of 1.0 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest PPG color to Banana Cream?

Dusty Yellow (1209-3), at ΔE 0.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Banana Cream?

≈ 75. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.