San Mateo Beaches
Benjamin Moore's San Mateo Beaches is a orange shade whose quieter details emerge through comparison. With an LRV of 76.4, it sits on the light-reflective side of the palette and can feel especially open in generous daylight. Because screens flatten both light and texture, sample the paint beside the finishes that will ultimately surround it.
Hex
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76.38
Coordinating Colors
Cotton Balls reflects far more light (LRV 89 vs 76), opening up a space where San Mateo Beaches encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 55, San Mateo Beaches is decisively the brighter choice.
A 9-point LRV gap (85 vs 76) makes Cloud White the marginally brighter of the two.
San Mateo Beaches reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 38), opening up a space where Brandon Beige encloses it.
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 76 vs 74), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 77 vs 76), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 76 and 76, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 78 and 76, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
At LRV 76 vs 28, San Mateo Beaches is decisively the brighter choice.
San Mateo Beaches reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 38), opening up a space where Pressed Violet encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 37, San Mateo Beaches is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 18, San Mateo Beaches is decisively the brighter choice.
San Mateo Beaches reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 62), opening up a space where English Hyacinth encloses it.
San Mateo Beaches reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 52), opening up a space where Oriental Iris encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 8, San Mateo Beaches is decisively the brighter choice.
Lighter Colors
With LRVs of 78 and 76, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Desolate reads slightly lighter (LRV 81 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 76 and 75, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Butterfield reads slightly lighter (LRV 85 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Pearly Gates reads slightly lighter (LRV 82 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Darker Colors
San Mateo Beaches reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 62), opening up a space where Yellow Topaz encloses it.
A 7-point LRV gap (76 vs 69) makes San Mateo Beaches the marginally brighter of the two.
San Mateo Beaches reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 55), opening up a space where York Harbor Yellow encloses it.
San Mateo Beaches reads slightly lighter (LRV 76 vs 66), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 4-point LRV gap (76 vs 72) makes San Mateo Beaches the marginally brighter of the two.
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Manufacturer description
Enlivened with orange undertones, this warm neutral evokes creamy sand dunes baked by the sun.