Match Soft Pumpkin
Benjamin Moore Soft Pumpkin is a mid-tone shade, warm in character with an LRV of 42. 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.
Soft Pumpkin reads slightly lighter (LRV 42 vs 39), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 2.7 you'd need them side by side to tell them apart.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 42 vs 41), so neither reads brighter in a room. The ΔE 3.2 gap is real but not dramatic — distinct as a choice, harmonious together.
A 9-point LRV gap (51 vs 42) makes Taste of Summer the marginally brighter of the two. The ΔE 4.3 gap is real but not dramatic — distinct as a choice, harmonious together.
A 7-point LRV gap (42 vs 35) makes Soft Pumpkin the marginally brighter of the two. The ΔE 5.3 gap is real but not dramatic — distinct as a choice, harmonious together.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 42 vs 39), so neither reads brighter in a room. The ΔE 5.6 gap is real but not dramatic — distinct as a choice, harmonious together.
RAL 310-3 reads slightly lighter (LRV 46 vs 42), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 6.1 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
Honey Drizzle 2 reads slightly lighter (LRV 45 vs 42), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 6.4 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
A 5-point LRV gap (42 vs 37) makes Soft Pumpkin the marginally brighter of the two. The ΔE 8.8 gap is real but not dramatic — distinct as a choice, harmonious together.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 43 vs 42), so neither reads brighter in a room. The ΔE 9.5 gap is real but not dramatic — distinct as a choice, harmonious together.
Soft Pumpkin reads slightly lighter (LRV 42 vs 33), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 9.9 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
Sand yellow reads slightly lighter (LRV 45 vs 42), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 11.0 these are two genuinely different directions, not variations on a theme.
Soft Pumpkin reads slightly lighter (LRV 42 vs 31), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 11.2 these are two genuinely different directions, not variations on a theme.
A 5-point LRV gap (42 vs 37) makes Soft Pumpkin the marginally brighter of the two. A ΔE of 11.3 puts them firmly in different territory — a strong contrast if combined.
A 6-point LRV gap (42 vs 36) makes Soft Pumpkin the marginally brighter of the two. A ΔE of 12.0 puts them firmly in different territory — a strong contrast if combined.