Dulux Bakers Flour 45YY 73/081

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What are Dulux Bakers Flour undertones?
Is Bakers Flour 45YY 73/081 cool or warm?
How light temperature affects on Bakers Flour
Monochromatic color scheme
Complementary color scheme
Color comparison and matching
Color codes
Color equivalents

Code:	45YY 73/081
Name:	Bakers Flour
Brand:	Dulux

What color is Dulux Bakers Flour?

Dulux Bakers Flour 45YY 73/081 is a light, softly muted off-white with a noticeable beige-yellow cast. Its #E1DACA value gives it a warm, flour-dusted appearance rather than a crisp white, with enough greyed softness to keep the color from reading overly creamy. In bright daylight, Bakers Flour can appear pale and gently sun-warmed; under warm artificial light, its beige undertone becomes more apparent. It suits living rooms, bedrooms, hallways, and ceilings where a gentler alternative to stark white is wanted. Pair it with natural oak, linen upholstery, woven textures, and deeper warm browns for a layered neutral scheme, or use charcoal and black details to add clearer contrast.

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What are Dulux Bakers Flour undertones?

Bakers Flour is a light, very muted sandy beige. The HEX sample has a subtle yellow-orange bias, but its low chroma turns that hue into a neutral-looking color rather than a clear yellow-orange. Warm bulbs can make it look creamier or more golden, while cool daylight may mute that warmth and pull it closer to beige or greige.

HEX value:

#E1DACA

RGB code:

225, 218, 202

Is Dulux Bakers Flour cool or warm?

warm

cool

With a hue of 42°, this Greige reads warm on the HSL color wheel.

45YY 73/081 Bakers Flour HSL code: 42, 28%, 84%

Hue - degree on a color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.
Saturation is expressed as a percentage. At 0%, it appears as a shade of grey, and at 100%, it is in full color.
Lightness is also a percentage value. 0% is black, and 100% is white.

How light temperature affects Bakers Flour

Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.

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In addition, natural-light temperature depends on its direction:

Direction of sunlight	Visible temp.	Hue	Duration
North	Cool	Bluish	All day
East	Warm	Yellow	Before noon
West	Warm	Orange-red	After noon
South	Warm	Orange-yellow	All day

Artificial Lighting. When choosing bulbs, pay attention to their color temperature in Kelvins.
Use the slider to see how this Greige shade looks under different lighting:

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Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Dulux Bakers Flour:

Monochromatic color scheme

This scheme consists of various shades, tints, and tones of a single color. While it offers a perfect combination of hues, without accent décor it may become monotonous.

Lighter shades

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Darker shades

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Complementary color scheme

This color scheme is a combination of two shades that are opposite each other on the color wheel. The high contrast between these colors creates a vibrant and dynamic visual effect. For the color Bakers Flour with a orange hue, complementary colors are those with a blue hue close to 222, such as Dulux Mystic Mauve 6 and Moon Waves 6.

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Color codes

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Format	Code
HEX	#E1DACA
RGB Decimal	225, 218, 202
RGB Percent	88.24%, 85.49%, 79.22%
HSV	Hue: 42° Saturation: 10.22% Value: 88.24%
HSL	hsl(42, 28, 84)
CMYK	Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 3.11 Yellow: 10.22 Key: 11.76
YIQ	Y: 218.269 I: 9.313 Q: -3.498
XYZ	X: 66.781 Y: 70.415 Z: 65.935
CIE Lab	L:87.2 a:-0.324 b:8.726
CIE Luv	L:87.2 u:4.992 v:13.005
Decimal	14801610
Hunter Lab	83.914, -4.793, 12.153