Lemongrass

With an LRV of about 51, Lemongrass 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.

Lemongrass in other brands

• Tea Bag Behr PPU8-09 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.5
• Desert Safari Johnstone's Yellow Very close ΔE 0.5
• TVT X453 Tikkurila Yellow Very close ΔE 0.6
• Garden Benjamin Moore CSP-1000 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.8
• Cyprus Grass Glidden 50YY 49/191 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.8
• Melancholy Nippon Paint NP N 1825P Yellow Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Rice Paddy Sherwin-Williams 6414 Yellow
• Ruskin Room Green Sherwin-Williams 42 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 Turns orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Lemongrass warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 20.1 and a value of -2.0 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Lemongrass?

Tea Bag (PPU8-09), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Lemongrass?

≈ 51. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.