Tips for Choosing Yellow Paint Colors

Yellows are probably the most difficult paint colors to get right. This is because they become much more intense on the wall than they appear on the little 1-inch square paint chip. So if you are trying to select the right yellow for a room in your home, you are basically shooting at a moving target. You have to anticipate what the what the color may look like on a larger surface.

The trick to yellows is choosing muted colors. Now this doesn't apply if you want a very bright and intense yellow - that's easy. But if you want a soft yellow that isn't too yellow, or too intense, then this task becomes difficult.

Muted (also called toned) yellows have a grayish or netural tone to them. But once you paint a large area they are typically plenty yellow. Remember to sample the colors before buying gallons. This testing step is important for any color, but vital for yellows.

The most popular yellows we've found are these:

Benjamin Moore HC-4 Hawthorne Yellow

Benjamin Moore 290 Fresh Butter

Benjamin Moore HC-5 Weston Flax

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