Believable Buff

With an LRV of about 59, Believable Buff reflects a little over half the light that reaches it, so it stays light in a north-facing room without looking stark. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Believable Buff in other brands

• Pale Portabella Kelly-Moore KM3988-2 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.5
• Richmond Benjamin Moore HC-177 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.7
• New Khaki Behr ECC-54-1 Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Sand Blast Dulux Australia S12E2 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Whispering Wheat Glidden 30YY 58/178 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Gardenia Valspar 3005-10B Beige Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Cottage Cream Sherwin-Williams 7678 Beige
• Sawgrass Basket Sherwin-Williams 9121 Orange

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Believable Buff warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 18.1 and a value of 2.2 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Believable Buff?

Pale Portabella (KM3988-2), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Believable Buff?

≈ 59. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.