Bona Fide Beige

With an LRV of about 50, Bona Fide Beige 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.

Bona Fide Beige in other brands

• Grey Mauve Glidden PPG18-03 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Grey Mauve PPG 18-03 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Windrift Beige Behr N190-3 Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• A3500M Crown Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• TVT Q674 Tikkurila Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Dinosaur Egg Kelly-Moore KM4556-2 Beige Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Malted Milk Sherwin-Williams 6057 Beige
• Utterly Beige Sherwin-Williams 6080 Beige

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as beige
• 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 Bona Fide Beige warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 9.4 and a value of 4.1 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Glidden color to Bona Fide Beige?

Grey Mauve (PPG18-03), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Bona Fide Beige?

≈ 50. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.