Turmeric
Turmeric is a Orange paint color from Benjamin Moore, but its character reaches beyond a single label. It appears in Color Preview®, placing it within several distinct decorating stories rather than a single fixed look. Move between the room imagery, color measurements and coordinating shades to build a fuller sense of how it might live in your space.
Hex
#BA8744LRV
26.62
Turmeric in Rooms
Follow Turmeric from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 3 sourced room photos offer a closer look at the color in lived-in settings.
3 Bedroom Photos
Across 3 bedroom images, Turmeric (2160-20) meets gentle morning light and low evening lamps. Its warm classification can feel inviting beside tactile, natural materials.
Bedroom walls in Turmeric create an inviting, cheerful atmosphere.
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Bedroom painted Turmeric brings warmth and sunlit brightness.
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Bedroom walls wrapped in Turmeric radiate sunny, optimistic energy.
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Coordinating Colors
At LRV 86 vs 27, Sugar Cookie is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 89 vs 27, Mountain Peak White is decisively the brighter choice.
Windham Cream reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 27), opening up a space where Turmeric encloses it.
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 29 vs 27), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 29 and 27, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 27 and 25, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 27 and 25, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
Turmeric reflects far more light (LRV 27 vs 14), opening up a space where Nocturnal Gray encloses it.
A 10-point LRV gap (27 vs 17) makes Turmeric the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 58 vs 27, Feather Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Turmeric reads slightly lighter (LRV 27 vs 24), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 30 and 27, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 28 and 27, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Lighter Colors
Desert Beach reads slightly lighter (LRV 32 vs 27), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 29 vs 27), so neither reads brighter in a room.
At LRV 40 vs 27, Guesthouse is decisively the brighter choice.
Roxbury Caramel reflects far more light (LRV 40 vs 27), opening up a space where Turmeric encloses it.
Coffeehouse Ochre reads slightly lighter (LRV 36 vs 27), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Darker Colors
With LRVs of 27 and 25, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
At LRV 27 vs 14, Turmeric is decisively the brighter choice.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 27 vs 27), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 3-point LRV gap (27 vs 23) makes Turmeric the marginally brighter of the two.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
Like its namesake spice, just a small amount of this rich ochre hue is needed to make a big statement.