Cross-brand match

Shortcake in Farrow & Ball

Vista Paint 0868 translated into the Farrow & Ball line

Vista Paint Shortcake 0868 on a wall, hex #EDDAAD
Farrow & Ball Dorset Cream 68 on a wall, hex #E9D0A3

The closest Farrow & Ball paint to Vista Paint Shortcake (0868) is Dorset Cream 68, a delta-E of 3.97 away — the closest Farrow & Ball has, and far enough away that you should sample it before committing.

Dorset Cream is 5.9 LRV points darker, so the room will read slightly deeper. Undertone reads as yellow against yellow, at chroma 25.7 and 24.6.

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.

NEARESTDorset Cream68
DISTANCEΔE 3.97CIE Lab
LIGHT REFLECTANCE65.1 against 71.0
HEX#E9D0A3against #EDDAAD

Ranked matches in Farrow & Ball

closest first
Farrow & Ball colorΔE LRV Undertone
Dorset Cream68 3.97 65.1 yellow Compare
Farrow's Cream67 4.75 69.7 yellow Compare
Pale Hound71 6.81 71.7 yellow Compare
Hay37 7.77 56.5 yellow Compare
Dayroom Yellow233 9.14 74.8 yellow Compare
String8 10.1 60.4 yellow Compare

Shortcake in other brands

same color, different line

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