Behr Coffee With Cream N170-4

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What are Behr Coffee With Cream undertones?
Is Coffee With Cream N170-4 cool or warm?
How light temperature affects on Coffee With Cream
Monochromatic color scheme
Complementary color scheme
Color comparison and matching
LRV of Coffee With Cream N170-4
Color codes
Color equivalents

Code:	N170-4
Name:	Coffee With Cream
Brand:	Behr

What color is Behr Coffee With Cream?

Behr Coffee With Cream N170-4 is a muted mid-tone taupe with a noticeable rosy-beige cast. Its softened, low-saturation color keeps it from reading too brown, while the warmth gives walls more presence than a pale neutral. In bright daylight, Coffee With Cream can look like a dusty beige with a gentle blush; lower light may pull out its deeper gray-brown side. It suits bedrooms, living rooms, and dining areas where white trim, oatmeal linen, natural oak, and aged brass can highlight its warmth. Pair this shade with creamy off-whites and deeper charcoal-brown accents rather than crisp blue-grays.

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What are Behr Coffee With Cream undertones?

Coffee With Cream is a mid-light, very muted caramel tan. The HEX sample has a subtle orange bias, but its low chroma turns that hue into a neutral-looking color rather than a clear 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:

#AF9B91

RGB code:

175, 155, 145

Is Behr Coffee With Cream cool or warm?

warm

cool

With a hue of 20°, this Beige reads warm on the HSL color wheel.

N170-4 Coffee With Cream HSL code: 20, 16%, 63%

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 Coffee With Cream

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 Beige shade looks under different lighting:

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Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Behr Coffee With Cream:

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 Coffee With Cream with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 200, such as Behr Oceanic Climate and Nor'Wester.

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LRV of Coffee With Cream

Coffee With Cream has an LRV of 35.23% and refers to Medium colors that reflect a lot of light. Why LRV is important?

Light Reflectance Value scale illustration

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 35.23%, 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

We have collected almost every possible color code you could ever need.
Not sure what the difference between HEX and RGB is? We break down color models in plain language. Understanding color models

Format	Code
HEX	#af9b91
RGB Decimal	175, 155, 145
RGB Percent	68.63%, 60.78%, 56.86%
HSV	Hue: 20° Saturation: 17.14% Value: 68.63%
HSL	hsl(20, 16, 63)
CMYK	Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 11.43 Yellow: 17.14 Key: 31.37
YIQ	Y: 159.84 I: 15.131 Q: 1.119
XYZ	X: 34.511 Y: 34.602 Z: 31.641
CIE Lab	L:65.437 a:5.681 b:7.936
CIE Luv	L:65.437 u:12.793 v:10.125
Decimal	11508625
Hunter Lab	58.823, 1.783, 9.284