Dulux Warm Straw

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

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Name:	Warm Straw
Brand:	Dulux

What color is Dulux Warm Straw?

Dulux Warm Straw is a light, muted beige with a gentle yellow-tan cast that keeps it noticeably warm without becoming golden. Its soft, low-saturation appearance makes it a useful wall color for living rooms, bedrooms, and hallways where brighter whites might feel too sharp. In daylight, this shade reads as a calm pale sand, while warmer evening lighting can bring out its creamy, slightly honeyed side. Pair it with off-white trim, oatmeal linen, pale oak, and woven natural-fiber textures for a layered neutral scheme. For contrast, Warm Straw also sits well beside charcoal accents, aged bronze hardware, or deep olive-green furnishings.

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What are Dulux Warm Straw undertones?

Warm Straw is a light, muted golden beige. The HEX sample leans yellow-orange; 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:

#D6C9AD

RGB code:

214, 201, 173

Is Dulux Warm Straw cool or warm?

warm

cool

With a hue of 41°, this Yellow reads warm on the HSL color wheel.

Warm Straw HSL code: 41, 33%, 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 Warm Straw

Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.

Sunrise

Morning

Noon

Afternoon

Sunset

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 Yellow shade looks under different lighting:

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Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Dulux Warm Straw:

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

Warm Straw

Darker shades

Warm Straw

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 Warm Straw with a orange hue, complementary colors are those with a blue hue close to 221, such as Dulux Smoke Grey and Mystic Mauve 6.

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Format	Code
HEX	#D6C9AD
RGB Decimal	214, 201, 173
RGB Percent	83.92%, 78.82%, 67.84%
HSV	Hue: 41° Saturation: 19.16% Value: 83.92%
HSL	hsl(41, 33, 76)
CMYK	Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 6.07 Yellow: 19.16 Key: 16.08
YIQ	Y: 201.695 I: 16.744 Q: -5.964
XYZ	X: 56.16 Y: 59.088 Z: 47.97
CIE Lab	L:81.34 a:-0.002 b:15.644
CIE Luv	L:81.34 u:9.451 v:22.382
Decimal	14076333
Hunter Lab	76.869, -4.108, 16.808