High Tea
High Tea is a Yellow paint color from Sherwin-Williams, but its character reaches beyond a single label. A muted saturation softens the hue, giving it a quieter quality that can sit comfortably among layered neutrals. Move between the room imagery, color measurements and coordinating shades to build a fuller sense of how it might live in your space.
Hex
#7E6F59LRV
16.53
High Tea's Color Strip
High Tea is the sixth shade on this 7-color strip, sitting between Sawdust and Best Bronze. The strip spans from Rice Grain at the lightest end to Best Bronze at the deepest. Browsing strip 210 alongside this color helps you gauge whether to go lighter, darker, or stay right here.
High Tea in Rooms
Follow High Tea from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 10 generated visualizations explore how the color might shape a finished room.
1 Bedroom Photo
These 1 bedroom image show how High Tea (6159) can sit beside bed linen, timber, wool and upholstered textures. The beige, greige hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
A moody bedroom painted in High Tea
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1 Bathroom Photo
High Tea (6159) moves through 1 bathroom image without becoming a fixed prescription for the room. Its warm classification can feel inviting beside tactile, natural materials.
High Tea — vintage bathroom
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1 Front Door Photo
These 1 front door image show how High Tea (6159) can sit beside hardware, glazing, masonry, timber and surrounding trim. The beige, greige hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
rustic modern front door featuring High Tea by Sherwin-Williams
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1 Home Office Photo
1 home office image place High Tea (6159) in a focused room balancing work, concentration and comfort. With an LRV of 16.5, it carries enough visual weight to make light, trim and texture feel especially deliberate.
Sherwin-Williams High Tea in a warm home office
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1 Dining Room Photo
The room’s change from everyday meals to evening occasions can draw different notes from High Tea (6159). The beige, greige hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
High Tea paint in a art deco dining room
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1 Living Room Photo
The 1 living room image turn a yellow swatch into something more spatial and expressive. Its muted saturation softens the color’s edges, making texture and shadow part of the composition.
A scandinavian living room painted in High Tea
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1 Mudroom Photo
1 mudroom image trace High Tea (6159) through the daily movement of arrivals, departures and changing weather. The beige, greige hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
High Tea paint in a neutral mudroom
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1 Kitchen Photo
Across 1 kitchen image, High Tea (6159) meets daylight, task lighting and evening pendants. Its warm classification can feel inviting beside tactile, natural materials.
High Tea — contemporary kitchen
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1 Patio Photo
1 generated visualization explores how the color might shape the finished space. Together they show High Tea (6159) as inspiration rather than a promise of an identical result.
minimalist patio featuring High Tea by Sherwin-Williams
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1 House Photo
In an exterior viewed across distance, weather and the changing sky, the most interesting quality of High Tea (6159) may be the way it responds to roofing, masonry, timber, planting and trim. The beige, greige hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
High Tea — eclectic house
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Coordinating Colors
Trim Color
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 17 vs 15), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 17 vs 16), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 17 vs 15), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 18 vs 17), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 17 and 17, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 17 and 17, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 18 vs 17), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Complementary Colors
A 5-point LRV gap (17 vs 11) makes High Tea the marginally brighter of the two.
A 10-point LRV gap (17 vs 7) makes High Tea the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 69 vs 17, Starry Night is decisively the brighter choice.
Soulful Blue reads slightly lighter (LRV 20 vs 17), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Dusty Heather reads slightly lighter (LRV 28 vs 17), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Lighter Colors
Warm Stone reads slightly lighter (LRV 20 vs 17), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 36 vs 17, Intellectual Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
A 3-point LRV gap (20 vs 17) makes Country Tweed the marginally brighter of the two.
Darker Colors
High Tea reads slightly lighter (LRV 17 vs 7), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 6-point LRV gap (17 vs 10) makes High Tea the marginally brighter of the two.
High Tea reads slightly lighter (LRV 17 vs 9), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 17 vs 15), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
Steep yourself in the muted golden warmth of afternoon light filtered through amber tea, a sophisticated dark yellow with earthy undertones that whispers of tradition and refined comfort. Perfect for creating an intimate, curated atmosphere in libraries, dining rooms, or accent walls that anchor a space with understated elegance.