Peace Yellow

With an LRV of about 65, Peace 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.

Peace Yellow in other brands

• Summer Sand Tikkurila 0966 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.3
• Madera Dunn-Edwards DEC728 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.7
• Hempel 24672 Hempel Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.7
• Honey Stick Nerolac 4644 Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.7
• B3661M Crown Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.8
• Knightley Straw Hallman Lindsay historic-knightley-straw Light Orange Very close ΔE 0.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• They call it Mellow Sherwin-Williams 9015 Light Yellow
• Cupola Yellow Sherwin-Williams 7692 Orange

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 Peace Yellow warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 28.4 and a value of 3.9 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Tikkurila color to Peace Yellow?

Summer Sand (0966), at ΔE 0.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Peace Yellow?

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