Ryegrass

With an LRV of about 40, Ryegrass 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.

Ryegrass in other brands

• Stuffed Olive Dunn-Edwards DE5529 Yellow Very close ΔE 0.6
• Fancy Flirt Johnstone's Yellow Very close ΔE 1.0
• TVT K451 Tikkurila Yellow Very close ΔE 1.1
• Spring Grass Asian Paints 7719 Yellow Very close ΔE 1.1
• Fresh Artichoke Behr M340-5 Yellow Very close ΔE 1.5
• The Botanist Crown C8361N Yellow Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Baby Bok Choy Sherwin-Williams 9037 Yellow
• Lemon Verbena Sherwin-Williams 7726 Yellow

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as yellow
• Protanopia Reads as yellow
• Tritanopia Reads as light gray
• 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 Ryegrass warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 26.0 and a value of -7.3 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dunn-Edwards color to Ryegrass?

Stuffed Olive (DE5529), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Ryegrass?

≈ 40. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.