Decisive Yellow

With an LRV of about 65, Decisive 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.

Decisive Yellow in other brands

• Pineapple Soda Behr 340B-6 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.4
• Banana Dream 1 Dulux UK 1187388 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.7
• Melted Butter Dunn-Edwards DE5313 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.7
• Dandy Lion Hallman Lindsay 829 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.8
• Fresh Mosambi Asian Paints X212 Light Orange Very close ΔE 1.0
• Golden Promise Valspar 3003-1C Yellow Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Sunny Veranda Sherwin-Williams 9017 Light Yellow
• Eye Catching Sherwin-Williams 6914 Yellow

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

Questions

Is Decisive Yellow warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 66.6 and a value of 4.8 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Decisive Yellow?

Pineapple Soda (340B-6), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Decisive Yellow?

≈ 65. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.