Behr Carnation Festival HDC-AC-28A
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| Code: | HDC-AC-28A |
| Name: | Carnation Festival |
| Brand: | Behr |
What color is Behr Carnation Festival?
Behr Carnation Festival HDC-AC-28A is a muted berry-rose with a noticeable plum cast, sitting at a medium depth rather than reading as a pale pink. Its softened saturation keeps the color from feeling overly sweet, making it well suited to a bedroom, powder room, or dining area with a more layered palette. Warm bulbs can draw out its rosy red side, while cooler daylight may make the dusky purple undertone more apparent. Try it on an accent wall or painted cabinetry with creamy off-whites, charcoal, deep brown wood, aged brass, and natural linen for contrast.
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What are Behr Carnation Festival undertones?
Carnation Festival is a midtone, soft berry red. The HEX sample leans pink-red; this describes its measurable digital hue direction, not a hidden paint pigment. 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:
RGB code:
145, 88, 112
Is Behr Carnation Festival cool or warm?
warm
cool
With a hue of 335°, this dark purple reads warm on the HSL color wheel.
HDC-AC-28A Carnation Festival HSL code: 335, 24%, 46%
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 Carnation Festival
Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.
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 dark purple shade looks under different lighting:
4000K
Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Behr Carnation Festival:
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 Carnation Festival with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 155, such as Behr Forest Edge and Longmeadow.
LRV of Carnation Festival
Carnation Festival has an LRV of 15.08% and refers to Medium Dark which means that this color reflects very little light. Why LRV is important?
Light Reflectance Value measures the amount of visible and usable light that reflects from a painted surface.
Simply put, the higher the LRV of a paint color, the brighter the room you will get.
The scale goes from 0% (absolute black, absorbing all light) to 100% (pure white, reflecting all light).
Act like a pro: When choosing paint with an LRV of 15.08%, pay attention to your bulbs' brightness. Light brightness is measured in lumens. The lower the paint's LRV, the higher lumen level you need. Every square foot of room needs at least 40 lumens. That means for a 200 ft2 living room you'll need about 8000 lumens of light – e.g., eight 1000 lm bulbs.
Color codes
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| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| HEX | #915870 |
| RGB Decimal | 145, 88, 112 |
| RGB Percent | 56.86%, 34.51%, 43.92% |
| HSV | Hue: 335° Saturation: 39.31% Value: 56.86% |
| HSL | hsl(335, 24, 46) |
| CMYK | Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 39.31 Yellow: 22.76 Key: 43.14 |
| YIQ | Y: 107.779 I: 26.254 Q: 19.526 |
| XYZ | X: 18.091 Y: 14.17 Z: 17.107 |
| CIE Lab | L:44.476 a:26.945 b:-3.651 |
| CIE Luv | L:44.476 u:34.002 v:-9.275 |
| Decimal | 9525360 |
| Hunter Lab | 37.643, 19.912, -0.594 |
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