Match Soft Apple
Dulux Soft Apple is a light-reflective shade, warm in character with an LRV of 83. 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.
A 4-point LRV gap (83 vs 79) makes Soft Apple the marginally brighter of the two. A ΔE of 1.0 means the difference barely reads in a finished room.
With LRVs of 83 and 82, the two reflect almost the same amount of light. At ΔE 1.8 you'd need them side by side to tell them apart.
Soft Apple reads slightly lighter (LRV 83 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 2.0 you'd need them side by side to tell them apart.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 83 vs 82), so neither reads brighter in a room. A ΔE of 2.2 means the difference barely reads in a finished room.
A 8-point LRV gap (83 vs 75) makes Soft Apple the marginally brighter of the two. A ΔE of 2.4 means the difference barely reads in a finished room.
With LRVs of 83 and 83, the two reflect almost the same amount of light. At ΔE 3.0 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
With LRVs of 83 and 81, the two reflect almost the same amount of light. At ΔE 5.0 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
A 5-point LRV gap (83 vs 78) makes Soft Apple the marginally brighter of the two. The ΔE 5.5 gap is real but not dramatic — distinct as a choice, harmonious together.
With LRVs of 85 and 83, the two reflect almost the same amount of light. At ΔE 5.8 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
At LRV 83 vs 68, Soft Apple is decisively the brighter choice. The ΔE 7.7 gap is real but not dramatic — distinct as a choice, harmonious together.
With LRVs of 83 and 80, the two reflect almost the same amount of light. At ΔE 7.7 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 83 vs 82), so neither reads brighter in a room. The ΔE 8.8 gap is real but not dramatic — distinct as a choice, harmonious together.
Cleanroom white reads slightly lighter (LRV 89 vs 83), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 9.0 they're clearly different, yet close enough to share a room.
Soft Apple reads slightly lighter (LRV 83 vs 72), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms. At ΔE 11.3 these are two genuinely different directions, not variations on a theme.