Colonial Yellow

With an LRV of about 60, Colonial Yellow 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.

Colonial Yellow in other brands

• Pollen Grains Behr PMD-30 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.3
• Golden Box Pratt & Lambert 10-7 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.8
• Fringe Of Gold Berger Paints 2T0717 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.8
• Sunset In Italy Hallman Lindsay 911 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.8
• TVT D103 Tikkurila Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.9
• Golden Chime Valspar 3006-5C Light Orange Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Classical Yellow Sherwin-Williams 2865 Light Orange
• Tarnished Trumpet Sherwin-Williams 9026 Orange

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 orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Colonial Yellow warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 35.8 and a value of 7.6 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Colonial Yellow?

Pollen Grains (PMD-30), at ΔE 0.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Colonial Yellow?

≈ 60. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.