Restrained Gold

With an LRV of about 46, Restrained Gold is a mid tone: it absorbs more light than it reflects, so it reads deeper on a large wall than on the chip. It suits accent walls and well-lit rooms. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Restrained Gold in other brands

• Caramel Cloud Vista C-244 Orange Very close ΔE 0.4
• Camelback Mountain Kelly-Moore KM5258-3 Orange Very close ΔE 0.7
• Hempel 24900 Hempel Orange Very close ΔE 0.7
• Light Oak Behr QE-29 Orange Very close ΔE 0.8
• Marill 80 Caparol 3D Marill 80 Orange Very close ΔE 0.9
• Warm Butterscotch Dunn-Edwards DE6151 Orange Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Birdseye Maple Sherwin-Williams 2834 Light Orange
• Coriander Powder Sherwin-Williams 9025 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 Restrained Gold warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 27.1 and a value of 6.2 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Vista color to Restrained Gold?

Caramel Cloud (C-244), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Restrained Gold?

≈ 46. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.