Match Hay Stack
Benjamin Moore Hay Stack is a light-reflective shade, warm in character with an LRV of 81. The matches below are ranked by ΔE, a perceptual color-difference score.
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Closest matches across every brand
One match per brand, ranked by ΔE — a perceptual color difference score calculated from Lab color space values. Lower is closer. Click any card to compare side by side in simulated rooms.
With LRVs of 84 and 81, the two reflect almost the same amount of light. At ΔE 2.8 you'd need them side by side to tell them apart.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 81 vs 79), so neither reads brighter in a room. A ΔE of 2.9 means the difference barely reads in a finished room.
Vanilla Sundae reads slightly lighter (LRV 85 vs 81), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 4.1 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
Hay Stack reads slightly lighter (LRV 81 vs 75), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 6.8 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
Hay Stack reads slightly lighter (LRV 81 vs 70), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 11.4 these are two genuinely different directions, not variations on a theme.
A 9-point LRV gap (81 vs 72) makes Hay Stack the marginally brighter of the two. A ΔE of 12.8 puts them firmly in different territory — a strong contrast if combined.
Hay Stack reads slightly lighter (LRV 81 vs 70), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 24.7 these are two genuinely different directions, not variations on a theme.