Dulux Milky Tea

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What are Dulux Milky Tea undertones?
Is Milky Tea cool or warm?
How light temperature affects on Milky Tea
Monochromatic color scheme
Complementary color scheme
Color comparison and matching
Color codes
Color equivalents

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Name:	Milky Tea
Brand:	Dulux

What color is Dulux Milky Tea?

Dulux Milky Tea is a light, muted beige with a gentle warm cast and a soft greyed quality that keeps it from reading overly creamy. Its low saturation gives walls a quiet, powdery appearance, with subtle pink-beige undertones becoming more noticeable in warm daylight. In north-facing rooms, Milky Tea may appear a little cooler and more taupe, while evening lighting can bring out its warmer side. It suits bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways where a pale neutral is needed without the starkness of white. Pair it with off-white trim, pale oak, linen upholstery, charcoal accents, or aged brass for a grounded, natural-looking scheme.

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What are Dulux Milky Tea undertones?

Milky Tea is a light, very muted muted beige. 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:

#CFC2B7

RGB code:

207, 194, 183

Is Dulux Milky Tea cool or warm?

warm

cool

With a hue of 27°, this Greige reads warm on the HSL color wheel.

Milky Tea HSL code: 27, 20%, 76%

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 Milky Tea

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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Morning

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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 Greige shade looks under different lighting:

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Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Dulux Milky Tea:

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

Milky Tea

Darker shades

Milky Tea

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 Milky Tea with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 207, such as Dulux Misty Morning and Denim Drift.

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Format	Code
HEX	#CFC2B7
RGB Decimal	207, 194, 183
RGB Percent	81.18%, 76.08%, 71.76%
HSV	Hue: 27° Saturation: 11.59% Value: 81.18%
HSL	hsl(27, 20, 76)
CMYK	Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 6.28 Yellow: 11.59 Key: 18.82
YIQ	Y: 196.633 I: 11.281 Q: -0.673
XYZ	X: 53.57 Y: 55.269 Z: 52.633
CIE Lab	L:79.196 a:2.686 b:7.168
CIE Luv	L:79.196 u:8.338 v:10.008
Decimal	13615799
Hunter Lab	74.343, -1.477, 10.064