Butter Tart vs Dayroom Yellow
Where Butter Tart belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Dayroom Yellow is a Farrow & Ball color. Both sit in the beige-yellow family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. Butter Tart (LRV 81) reflects noticeably more light than Dayroom Yellow (LRV 75), a difference of 6 points that becomes especially apparent in rooms with limited natural light. The ΔE 6.1 gap is real but not dramatic — close enough to use together, distinct enough to matter as a choice. Below you'll find 1 real-room photo comparison where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Butter Tart vs Dayroom Yellow in Real Spaces
1 real room side by side. Butter Tart and Dayroom Yellow are close enough that the difference can be hard to judge from a chip alone — these photos show how each reads at scale, across different spaces and lighting conditions.
Bathroom
Bathrooms are one of the few spaces where you're genuinely enclosed by the paint color, which makes the choice between these two more consequential. Butter Tart reads slightly lighter here — a subtle but real difference in how open the space feels.
Color Details
Butter Tart vs Dayroom Yellow Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Butter Tart on one side and Dayroom Yellow on the other.
Digital color is approximate. These simulations are generated from the manufacturer's hex values and overlaid on grayscale room photos — your screen's calibration, brightness, and viewing angle all affect how they render. Before committing to either color, test physical samples in your own space under the light you actually live with.
More Butter Tart comparisons
See how Butter Tart stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
At LRV 81 vs 69, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 83 and 81, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 6), opening up a space where Iron Ore encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 52, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 81 vs 30, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 52), opening up a space where Mizzle encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 60, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 58), opening up a space where Accessible Beige encloses it.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 43, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 81 vs 4, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 55), opening up a space where Tranquil Dawn encloses it.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 13), opening up a space where Bancha encloses it.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 44), opening up a space where Hardwick White encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 84 vs 81), so neither reads brighter in a room.
At LRV 81 vs 21, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 66), opening up a space where Balboa Mist encloses it.
Butter Tart reads slightly lighter (LRV 81 vs 74), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 83 and 81, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
At LRV 81 vs 51, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 8), opening up a space where Duck Green encloses it.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 68), opening up a space where Skimming Stone encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 41, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
Butter Tart reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 45), opening up a space where Saybrook Sage encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 31, Butter Tart is decisively the brighter choice.