Friendly Yellow

With an LRV of about 76, Friendly Yellow 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.

Friendly Yellow in other brands

• Smooth As Corn Silk Kelly-Moore KM5172-1 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.5
• Palace Chambers Yellow Medium Light Pratt & Lambert CW315 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.7
• Solemn Yellow Asian Paints 7882 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.8
• Dusty Yellow Glidden PPG1209-3 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.8
• Dusty Yellow PPG 1209-3 Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.8
• Young Banana Nippon Paint NP YO 1159P Light Yellow Very close ΔE 0.8

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 light 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 Friendly Yellow warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 25.7 and a value of 0.2 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Friendly Yellow?

Smooth As Corn Silk (KM5172-1), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Friendly Yellow?

≈ 76. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.