Butter Up

With an LRV of about 74, Butter Up 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.

Butter Up in other brands

• Gold Dust Nippon Paint NP YO 1146P Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.3
• Jonquil Yellow Glidden 40YY 71/335 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.9
• Hay Bale Berger Paints 3T0740 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.9
• TVT Q108 Tikkurila Yellow Very close ΔE 1.0
• Clay Dust Dunn-Edwards DE5373 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 1.0
• Open Sesame Dulux Australia S14G2 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 1.1

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 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 Butter Up warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 31.7 and a value of 0.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Nippon Paint color to Butter Up?

Gold Dust (NP YO 1146P), at ΔE 0.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Butter Up?

≈ 74. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.