Yellow Tail vs Fun Yellow
Yellow Tail (Cloverdale Paint) and Fun Yellow (Sherwin-Williams) come from different manufacturers. Both sit in the beige-yellow family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. The 7-point LRV gap — 85 for Yellow Tail vs 78 for Fun Yellow — means Yellow Tail will open up a space more effectively. ΔE 4.0 means they're clearly different, but not dramatically so — they'd pair well in the same room. Below you'll find 5 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Yellow Tail vs Fun Yellow in Real Spaces
5 real rooms side by side. Yellow Tail and Fun Yellow are close enough that the difference can be hard to judge from a chip alone — these photos show how each reads at scale, across different spaces and lighting conditions.
Living Room
A living room wall sees more varied light than almost any other surface in the house, which makes the choice between these two more nuanced than a chip suggests. Yellow Tail reads slightly lighter here — a subtle but real difference in how open the space feels.
Bedroom
Bedrooms are typically lit with warmer, lower light than the rest of the house — a condition that flatters warm tones and deepens cool ones. Yellow Tail has the edge in reflectance, which shows as a quiet sense of added space rather than an obvious contrast.
Kitchen
Kitchens often have the harshest, most revealing light in the house — under-cabinet LEDs and overhead fixtures that strip away subtlety. Yellow Tail has the edge in reflectance, which shows as a quiet sense of added space rather than an obvious contrast.
Dining Room
Dining rooms often rely on warm incandescent or candlelight, which flatters warm undertones and mutes cool ones. The brightness difference is modest but present — Yellow Tail gives the walls a little more lift.
Bathroom
Small bathrooms intensify color. A shade that seems quiet in a larger room can feel immersive when you're surrounded by it on four walls. Yellow Tail has the edge in reflectance, which shows as a quiet sense of added space rather than an obvious contrast.
Color Details
Yellow Tail vs Fun Yellow Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Yellow Tail on one side and Fun Yellow on the other.
Digital color is approximate. These simulations are generated from the manufacturer's hex values and overlaid on grayscale room photos — your screen's calibration, brightness, and viewing angle all affect how they render. Before committing to either color, test physical samples in your own space under the light you actually live with.
More Yellow Tail comparisons
See how Yellow Tail stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
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At LRV 85 vs 6, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
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Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 52, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 60), opening up a space where Agreeable Gray encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 58, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 27, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 4), opening up a space where Naval encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 55, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 13, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 44, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 85 and 84, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 21), opening up a space where Artichoke encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 66, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
A 11-point LRV gap (85 vs 74) makes Yellow Tail the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 85 vs 83), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 51), opening up a space where Pigeon encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 12, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 8, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 68, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 41), opening up a space where Dix Blue encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 12, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 45, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.