Lantern Light
With a focus on bright and airy tones, Lantern Light (6687) is a standout Yellow in our database. It was selected for this featured gallery for its ability to maximize natural light while maintaining a clean, neutral backdrop. See it applied across 10 real world scenarios and find professional pairing data below.
Hex
#F4E1AE
LRV
76.05
Lantern Light's Color Strip
Lantern Light is the first shade on this 7-color strip, the lightest in this coordinated family. As part of strip 136, these colors are curated to work together — helpful when you're deciding how light or deep to go.
Lantern Light in Real Rooms
Lantern Light has a high LRV of 76.05 — it reflects a lot of light and will read pale and airy in most spaces. It's neutral in temperature and , making it adaptable across different lighting conditions and room orientations. Grouped in the Yellow family, the photos below show it applied in a bathroom, bedroom, dining room, front door, kitchen, house, home office, living room, patio and mudroom.
1 Bathroom Photo
Pairing Lantern Light with natural stone like travertine or slate creates an earthy, elemental bathroom that feels connected to nature. It moves the design away from plastic-heavy modernism toward something much more timeless and tactile.
Lantern Light — moody bathroom
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1 Bedroom Photo
Pairing Lantern Light with tonal textures—like a silk rug or a bouclé chair—creates a layered, monochromatic look that is the height of sophistication for a bedroom. It proves that you don't need high-contrast colors to create a room that feels high-design and deeply personal.
A modern luxury bedroom painted in Lantern Light
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1 Dining Room Photo
The color Lantern Light has a way of making wood furniture look its best. Whether you have a dark mahogany table or a light oak sideboard, the undertones of the paint will pull out the natural beauty and grain of the wood.
Lantern Light paint in a boho dining room
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1 Front Door Photo
There's a psychological sense of "arrival" when you step up to a door painted in Lantern Light. It feels solid, grounded, and permanent, giving both residents and guests a sense of stability as they cross the threshold.
classy front door featuring Lantern Light by Sherwin-Williams
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1 Kitchen Photo
On kitchen walls, Lantern Light adds a considered, intentional feel without demanding too much attention in a busy space. It holds its own against both warm wood countertops and cool quartz or marble, making it an incredibly flexible choice for the hardest-working and most high-traffic room in the house.
Lantern Light — scandinavian kitchen
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1 House Photo
Exterior paint earns its keep over years, not months — it needs to handle bleaching summers, wet winters, and the slow shifts of a neighborhood's context. Lantern Light has the depth and pigment quality to age gracefully through all of it.
Lantern Light color — coastal house inspiration
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1 Home Office Photo
Lantern Light in a home office signals that the space was thought about. The color holds up under the scrutiny of video calls without feeling staged, and it stays comfortable across the full working day in a way that brighter colors often don't.
Sherwin-Williams Lantern Light in a contemporary home office
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1 Living Room Photo
The beauty of Lantern Light in a living room lies in its versatility with textures. It provides a smooth, matte-like quality that contrasts beautifully against plush velvet sofas or chunky wool rugs. It's a color that invites you to stay a little longer, creating an atmosphere that feels established rather than just decorated.
A industrial living room painted in Lantern Light
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1 Patio Photo
On a deck or patio floor, Lantern Light provides a cool, sophisticated surface that feels modern and clean. It's a great way to update an old wooden deck, giving it a high-end "architectural" feel with just a simple change of tone.
boho patio featuring Lantern Light by Sherwin-Williams
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1 Mudroom Photo
Lantern Light is the perfect partner for durable flooring like slate, brick, or terracotta. It picks up the earthy tones in these materials, creating a mudroom that feels cohesive, rugged, and ready for whatever the weather brings in.
Lantern Light paint in a traditional mudroom
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Coordinating Colors
Lemon Chiffon reads slightly lighter (LRV 79 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 10-point LRV gap (86 vs 76) makes Westhighland White the marginally brighter of the two.
Lantern Light reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 29), opening up a space where Illusive Green encloses it.
Trim Color
Lemon Chiffon reads slightly lighter (LRV 79 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Similar Colors
With LRVs of 76 and 76, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 76 vs 76), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 3-point LRV gap (79 vs 76) makes They call it Mellow the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 76 vs 76), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 76 vs 75), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 76 vs 74), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 79 and 76, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 76 vs 76), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Lemon Chiffon reads slightly lighter (LRV 79 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 76 and 74, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
At LRV 76 vs 44, Lantern Light is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 18, Lantern Light is decisively the brighter choice.
Lantern Light reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 5), opening up a space where Dress Blues encloses it.
Lantern Light reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 61), opening up a space where Bewitching Blue encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 22, Lantern Light is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 5, Lantern Light is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 6, Lantern Light is decisively the brighter choice.
Lighter Colors
Dollop Of Cream reads slightly lighter (LRV 84 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 78 and 76, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 76 and 75, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 9-point LRV gap (85 vs 76) makes Corona the marginally brighter of the two.
Lemon Chiffon reads slightly lighter (LRV 79 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Darker Colors
At LRV 76 vs 58, Lantern Light is decisively the brighter choice.
A 11-point LRV gap (76 vs 65) makes Lantern Light the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 76 vs 76), so neither reads brighter in a room.
At LRV 76 vs 58, Lantern Light is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 64, Lantern Light is decisively the brighter choice.