Behr Chartreuse Frost MQ3-17
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| Code: | MQ3-17 |
| Name: | Chartreuse Frost |
| Brand: | Behr |
What color is Behr Chartreuse Frost?
Behr Chartreuse Frost MQ3-17 is a light, muted cream-beige with a soft yellow cast and a lightly weathered, low-saturation appearance. Its pale value keeps walls bright without reading as stark white, while the subtle warmth helps offset cool flooring or stone. In daylight, this shade can look cleaner and more softly yellow; under warm evening bulbs, it tends to take on a creamier beige character. Use it across living room, bedroom, or hallway walls with warm white trim, natural oak, linen, and woven textures. Charcoal, softened olive, and dusty blue accents provide useful contrast without overpowering this quiet neutral.
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What are Behr Chartreuse Frost undertones?
Chartreuse Frost is a light, muted straw beige. The HEX sample leans yellow; 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:
228, 220, 198
Is Behr Chartreuse Frost cool or warm?
warm
cool
With a hue of 44°, this Beige reads warm on the HSL color wheel.
MQ3-17 Chartreuse Frost HSL code: 44, 36%, 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 Chartreuse Frost
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 Beige shade looks under different lighting:
4000K
Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Behr Chartreuse Frost:
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
MQ3-17
Chartreuse Frost
Darker shades
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 Chartreuse Frost with a orange hue, complementary colors are those with a blue hue close to 224, such as Behr Hypnotic and Midnight Blue.
LRV of Chartreuse Frost
Chartreuse Frost has an LRV of 71.36% and refers to Light colors that reflect most of the incident 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 71.36%, 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 | #e4dcc6 |
| RGB Decimal | 228, 220, 198 |
| RGB Percent | 89.41%, 86.27%, 77.65% |
| HSV | Hue: 44° Saturation: 13.16% Value: 89.41% |
| HSL | hsl(44, 36, 84) |
| CMYK | Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 3.51 Yellow: 13.16 Key: 10.59 |
| YIQ | Y: 219.884 I: 11.837 Q: -5.154 |
| XYZ | X: 67.779 Y: 71.758 Z: 63.691 |
| CIE Lab | L:87.852 a:-0.931 b:11.792 |
| CIE Luv | L:87.852 u:5.95 v:17.526 |
| Decimal | 14998726 |
| Hunter Lab | 84.71, -5.42, 14.719 |
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