Benjamin Moore Cedar Key / 982 / OC-16

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Cedar Key for living room (2 photos)
Benjamin Moore OC-16 on kitchen cabinets (2 photos)
What are Benjamin Moore Cedar Key undertones?
Is Cedar Key OC-16 cool or warm?
How light temperature affects on Cedar Key
Monochromatic color scheme
Complementary color scheme
Color comparison and matching
LRV of Cedar Key OC-16
Color codes
Color equivalents

Official page:	Cedar Key OC-16
Code:	OC-16
Name:	Cedar Key
Brand:	Benjamin Moore

What color is Benjamin Moore Cedar Key?

Benjamin Moore Cedar Key OC-16 is a light, muted beige with a gentle gray cast that keeps it from reading overly creamy. Its soft warmth is most noticeable in daylight, while lower or cooler light can bring forward its quiet taupe side. This shade suits living rooms, bedrooms, and hallways where a pale neutral is wanted without the starkness of white. Pair Cedar Key with warm white trim, weathered oak, linen upholstery, and brushed brass for a layered, natural-looking palette. It also makes a restrained backdrop for charcoal details, deep green accents, or darker wood furniture.

Cedar Key for living room (2 photos)

Check out this stunning light color used in real living rooms. Explore how this beige shade can create a unique space

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Benjamin Moore OC-16 on kitchen cabinets (2 photos)

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What are Benjamin Moore Cedar Key undertones?

Cedar Key reads as a light, very muted beige off-white with low saturation and a subtle yellow direction. Its undertone appears to be a slight warm yellow bias relative to a more balanced neutral, rather than a strong or clearly separate undertone. Benjamin Moore describes it as a neutral, which fits its visibly soft, restrained beige character. Warm artificial light may bring out more of its yellow warmth, while cool daylight may make it appear more neutral or slightly grayer.

Manufacturer information used in this description: official color page.

HEX value:

#D7CEBF

RGB code:

215, 206, 191

Is Benjamin Moore Cedar Key cool or warm?

warm

cool

With a hue of 38°, this Beige reads warm on the HSL color wheel.

OC-16 Cedar Key HSL code: 38, 23%, 80%

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 Cedar Key

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 Benjamin Moore Cedar Key:

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 Cedar Key with a orange hue, complementary colors are those with a blue hue close to 218, such as Benjamin Moore Normandy and Feather Gray.

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LRV of Cedar Key

Cedar Key has an LRV of 61.05% and refers to Light colors that reflect most of the incident 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 61.05%, 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	#D7CEBF
RGB Decimal	215, 206, 191
RGB Percent	84.31%, 80.78%, 74.90%
HSV	Hue: 38° Saturation: 11.16% Value: 84.31%
HSL	hsl(38, 23, 80)
CMYK	Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 4.19 Yellow: 11.16 Key: 15.69
YIQ	Y: 206.981 I: 10.183 Q: -2.764
XYZ	X: 59.498 Y: 62.352 Z: 58.177
CIE Lab	L:83.1 a:0.562 b:8.572
CIE Luv	L:83.1 u:6.149 v:12.508
Decimal	14143167
Hunter Lab	78.963, -3.688, 11.592