Popcorn Kernel
Popcorn Kernel is a Yellow paint color from Benjamin Moore, but its character reaches beyond a single label. Its beige classifications hint at the directions it may take as daylight, lamps and neighboring colors move around it. Move between the room imagery, color measurements and coordinating shades to build a fuller sense of how it might live in your space.
Hex
#FCE9B6LRV
79.23
Coordinating Colors
At LRV 79 vs 46, Popcorn Kernel is decisively the brighter choice.
Popcorn Kernel reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 42), opening up a space where Grasslands encloses it.
White Rock reads slightly lighter (LRV 83 vs 79), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 6-point LRV gap (86 vs 79) makes Lemon Chiffon the marginally brighter of the two.
Similar Colors
A 7-point LRV gap (79 vs 72) makes Popcorn Kernel the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 79 vs 79), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 6-point LRV gap (79 vs 73) makes Popcorn Kernel the marginally brighter of the two.
With LRVs of 79 and 77, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
At LRV 79 vs 53, Popcorn Kernel is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 79 vs 6, Popcorn Kernel is decisively the brighter choice.
Popcorn Kernel reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 45), opening up a space where Summer Blue encloses it.
Popcorn Kernel reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 63), opening up a space where Windmill Wings encloses it.
Popcorn Kernel reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 9), opening up a space where Dark Royal Blue encloses it.
At LRV 79 vs 10, Popcorn Kernel is decisively the brighter choice.
Lighter Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 80 vs 79), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 80 and 79, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 81 and 79, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 79 vs 79), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 3-point LRV gap (82 vs 79) makes Little Dipper the marginally brighter of the two.
Darker Colors
With LRVs of 79 and 77, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Popcorn Kernel reads slightly lighter (LRV 79 vs 70), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Popcorn Kernel reads slightly lighter (LRV 79 vs 73), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Popcorn Kernel reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 63), opening up a space where Golden Groves encloses it.
Popcorn Kernel reads slightly lighter (LRV 79 vs 70), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
A bright orange cast distinguishes this light shade of yellow.