Behr Patience PR-W11
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| Code: | PR-W11 |
| Name: | Patience |
| Brand: | Behr |
What color is Behr Patience?
Behr Patience PR-W11 is a light, muted off-white with a soft warm cast that keeps it from reading stark or icy. Its subtle beige and faint rosy-gray undertones give walls a gently softened appearance, especially in rooms with warm daylight. In cooler north-facing light, Patience can look more like a pale greige, while evening lamps tend to draw out its creamy warmth. It suits bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways where a low-contrast backdrop is preferred over bright white. Pair it with natural oak, linen upholstery, brushed brass, or deeper mushroom and charcoal accents for definition. This shade is also well suited to cabinetry when paired with a slightly deeper wall color or dark hardware.
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What are Behr Patience undertones?
Patience is a light, very muted creamy off-white. 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:
RGB code:
230, 221, 214
Is Behr Patience cool or warm?
warm
cool
With a hue of 26°, this Grey reads warm on the HSL color wheel.
PR-W11 Patience HSL code: 26, 24%, 87%
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 Patience
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 Grey shade looks under different lighting:
4000K
Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Behr Patience:
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
PR-W11
Patience
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 Patience with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 206, such as Behr Nor'Wester and Absolute Zero.
LRV of Patience
Patience has an LRV of 73.59% and refers to Off‑White colors that reflect a lot of 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 73.59%, 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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Not sure what the difference between HEX and RGB is? We break down color models in plain language. Understanding color models
| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| HEX | #e6ddd6 |
| RGB Decimal | 230, 221, 214 |
| RGB Percent | 90.20%, 86.67%, 83.92% |
| HSV | Hue: 26° Saturation: 6.96% Value: 90.2% |
| HSL | hsl(26, 24, 87) |
| CMYK | Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 3.91 Yellow: 6.96 Key: 9.8 |
| YIQ | Y: 222.893 I: 7.613 Q: -0.275 |
| XYZ | X: 70.625 Y: 73.392 Z: 74.046 |
| CIE Lab | L:88.634 a:1.864 b:4.526 |
| CIE Luv | L:88.634 u:5.608 v:6.477 |
| Decimal | 15130070 |
| Hunter Lab | 85.669, -2.767, 8.723 |
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