Benjamin Moore OC-123Benjamin Moore OC-123A pale yellow undertone that still counts as a color on the wall. Benjamin Moore's designation for it is OC-123.
At this LRV (88.9), a room reads as neither bright-white nor dim - a genuinely middle-of-the-road amount of light comes back off the wall. Chroma 8.2 keeps the yellow undertone present without letting it run the room.
Warm bulbs will soften it; daylight bulbs push it further cool. Light enough for whole-room coverage while still reading as a real color choice rather than a white.
By the numbers, Dunn-Edwards Ivory Keys (DEW353) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.63, well under what the eye can separate. A satin finish is worth it in a room that needs to be wiped down often, at the cost of showing a bit more of the wall's surface than a flat finish would.
Nothing Benjamin Moore makes is lighter: of their 3,879 colors, this is the top of the scale. The name is not unique: Behr 340E-3 and Dunn-Edwards DE5427 also sell a color called Bavarian Cream, and it is not the same shade. Benjamin Moore lists it in the OC codes, alongside 151 other colors.
Benjamin Moore Bavarian Cream sits between warm and cool: its hue angle is 110° in CIE Lab at a chroma of 8.2, with a yellow undertone.
The light reflectance value (LRV) of Benjamin Moore Bavarian Cream (OC-123) is 88.9, on a scale where 0 is absolute black and 100 is absolute white, which makes it a light color.
Measured on the color wheel, Benjamin Moore Bavarian Cream pairs with Dunn-Edwards Icy Lilac (DE5903, complement), Dunn-Edwards Garden Dawn (DE5616, analogous, warmer), PPG Uptown Taupe (1201-1, analogous, cooler), Dunn-Edwards Boysenberry Shadow (DEW391, soft accent).
Benjamin Moore Bavarian Cream's hex value is #F7F7E7, RGB 247, 247, 231.
Benjamin Moore Bavarian Cream is classified as a yellow, with a yellow undertone.
The nearest Pantone TCX color to Benjamin Moore Bavarian Cream is 11-4302 TCX Cannoli Cream, delta-E 3.05; the nearest RAL Classic is RAL 9010 Pure white, delta-E 3.21. Neither is an exact match.
The closest cross-brand match to Benjamin Moore Bavarian Cream is Dunn-Edwards Ivory Keys (DEW353), at a delta-E of 0.63 - close enough to be the same color by measurement.
| HEX | #F7F7E7 |
| RGB | 247, 247, 231 |
| CMYK | 0%, 0%, 6%, 3% |
| HSL | 60°, 50%, 94% |
| HSV | 60°, 6%, 97% |
| CIE Lab | 96.85, -2.73, 7.68 |
| LCh | 96.85, 8.15, 109.6° |
| XYZ | 86.04, 92.07, 88.82 |
| Pantone (nearest) | 11-4302 TCX Cannoli Cream · ΔE 3.05 |
| RAL (nearest) | RAL 9010 Pure white · ΔE 3.21 |
| 11-4302 TCX Cannoli Cream | ΔE 3.05 | |
| 11-4300 TCX Marshmallow | ΔE 4.21 | |
| 11-0103 TCX Egret | ΔE 4.55 | |
| RAL 9010 Pure white | ΔE 3.21 | |
| RAL 9001 Cream | ΔE 4.15 | |
| RAL 9012 Clean room white | ΔE 4.15 |
Pantone TCX and RAL Classic are physical standards; these are their published sRGB approximations, so check a fan deck before specifying. Pantone® and RAL are trademarks of their respective owners.
Shades mix the color toward black, tints toward white. Click any step to find the paint colors closest to it.
One image with Bavarian Cream and its closest color at every other brand, measured by delta-E.
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Pear GreenBenjamin Moore 2028-40
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