Softer Tan

With an LRV of about 60, Softer Tan 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.

Softer Tan in other brands

• Raw Sugar Kelly-Moore KM5773-1 Beige Very close ΔE 0.4
• Platinum Pratt & Lambert 7-29 Beige Very close ΔE 0.4
• Seriously Sand PPG 1085-3 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Seriously Sand Glidden PPG1085-3 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Hummus Jotun 12118 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• IKEA192 IKEA Beige Very close ΔE 0.7

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Gardenia Sherwin-Williams 6665 Beige
• Windsor Greige Sherwin-Williams 7528 Beige

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as beige
• Protanopia Reads as beige
• Tritanopia Reads as pink
• Achromatopsia Reads as light gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns light orange
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Softer Tan warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 14.0 and a value of 1.7 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Softer Tan?

Raw Sugar (KM5773-1), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Softer Tan?

≈ 60. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.