Cross-brand match

French Sonnet in Dunn-Edwards

Vista Paint 7891 translated into the Dunn-Edwards line

Vista Paint French Sonnet 7891 on a wall, hex #F4E3C0
Dunn-Edwards Melted Wax DE6163 on a wall, hex #F6E6C5

The closest Dunn-Edwards paint to Vista Paint French Sonnet (7891) is Melted Wax DE6163, a delta-E of 1.54 away — close enough to swap without anyone noticing, though a large sample in daylight will show the difference.

Melted Wax is 4.2 LRV points lighter, so the room will read slightly brighter. Undertone reads as yellow against yellow, at chroma 18.1 and 19.2.

Codes are not transferable between manufacturers and no brand publishes a conversion table, so every figure here is measured from the published hex values rather than taken from a chart.

NEARESTMelted WaxDE6163
DISTANCEΔE 1.54CIE Lab
LIGHT REFLECTANCE80.2 against 76.0
HEX#F6E6C5against #F4E3C0

Ranked matches in Dunn-Edwards

closest first
Dunn-Edwards colorΔE LRV Undertone
Melted WaxDE6163 1.54 80.2 yellow Compare
Ivory OatsDE5358 1.67 79.5 yellow Compare
FlaxseedDEC736 1.93 80.4 yellow Compare
CameoDEC742 1.95 74.8 yellow Compare
ChampagneDEC723 2.16 74.9 yellow Compare
Burnished CreamDE5365 3.05 80.5 yellow Compare

French Sonnet in other brands

same color, different line

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