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It keeps its yellow while staying light. Farrow & Ball files it as 8.

Light reflectance measures 60.4, which is enough to keep a room bright without bouncing light around. Chroma 16.1 sits in a comfortable middle: present enough to notice, restrained enough to live with.

It holds up in a north-facing room, which is where warmth is usually missing. A dependable choice where a room gets good natural light and a pure white would feel sterile. For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 29.9 LRV points apart).

By the numbers, PPG Soft Suede (1103-3) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.52, 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.

It is lighter than 71 percent of the Farrow & Ball range. Farrow & Ball lists it in the 0000 series, alongside 46 other colors.