Cottage Cream

With an LRV of about 72, Cottage 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.

Cottage Cream in other brands

• Flawless Benjamin Moore AF-320 Beige Very close ΔE 0.2
• B3720X Crown Beige Very close ΔE 0.4
• Light Incense Behr UL150-7 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Perfumed Powder Nippon Paint NP N 1845P Beige Very close ΔE 0.6
• TVT D102 Tikkurila Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Shortbread Hallman Lindsay 257 Beige Very close ΔE 0.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Lemon Meringue Sherwin-Williams 7561 Beige
• Believable Buff Sherwin-Williams 6120 Light Orange

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 light orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns light orange
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Cottage Cream warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 17.0 and a value of 1.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Benjamin Moore color to Cottage Cream?

Flawless (AF-320), at ΔE 0.2. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Cottage Cream?

≈ 72. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.