Cut the Mustard

With an LRV of about 26, Cut the Mustard absorbs most of the light that reaches it. It makes a wall recede and a room feel smaller, and it needs good light to show its color. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Cut the Mustard in other brands

• Colonel Mustard Dulux Australia S14F9 Orange Very close ΔE 1.0
• Yellow Kobra 11 Orange Very close ΔE 1.0
• Cider Toddy PPG 1207-7 Orange Very close ΔE 1.5
• Cider Toddy Glidden PPG1207-7 Orange Very close ΔE 1.5
• Autumn Fest Behr S-H-310 Orange Very close ΔE 1.5
• Farmhouse Ochre Hallman Lindsay historic-farmhouse-ochre Orange Very close ΔE 1.5

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Golden Rule Sherwin-Williams 6383 Orange
• Copper Pot Sherwin-Williams 7709 Brown

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as yellow
• Protanopia Reads as olive
• Tritanopia Reads as red
• Achromatopsia Reads as gray

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Cut the Mustard warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 46.5 and a value of 16.1 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Cut the Mustard?

Colonel Mustard (S14F9), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Cut the Mustard?

≈ 26. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.