Yellow Tail vs Calamine
Where Yellow Tail belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Calamine is a Farrow & Ball color. Hue-wise, Yellow Tail belongs to the beige-yellow family and Calamine to the pink-red family. Yellow Tail (LRV 85) reflects noticeably more light than Calamine (LRV 68), a difference of 17 points that becomes especially apparent in rooms with limited natural light. With a ΔE of 37.2, the contrast is hard to miss. These aren't variations on a theme — they're two different answers to the same question. Below you'll find 5 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Yellow Tail vs Calamine in Real Spaces
5 real rooms side by side. Seeing Yellow Tail and Calamine in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
Living Room
In a living room, color works across both daylight and evening light — the same wall can read very differently at noon and at 8pm. The LRV gap is large enough that Yellow Tail will make the room feel meaningfully brighter than Calamine would.
Bedroom
The context that matters most in a bedroom is how a color reads under a bedside lamp at night, not under noon daylight. Yellow Tail reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Calamine.
Kitchen
In a kitchen, colors are seen under bright task lighting that amplifies undertones — what reads neutral elsewhere can show its hand here. Yellow Tail reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Calamine.
Dining Room
A dining room lit by a dimmed pendant or candles is one of the most forgiving environments for paint — warm light softens almost everything. Yellow Tail returns significantly more light to the room — in a smaller or darker space, that difference in perceived brightness is hard to miss.
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. Yellow Tail reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Calamine.
Color Details
Yellow Tail vs Calamine Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Yellow Tail on one side and Calamine 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 Yellow Tail comparisons
See how Yellow Tail stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 69), opening up a space where Ammonite encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 85 vs 83), so neither reads brighter in a room.
At LRV 85 vs 6, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 52), opening up a space where Purbeck Stone encloses it.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 52, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 60), opening up a space where Agreeable Gray encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 58, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 27, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 4), opening up a space where Naval encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 55, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 13, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 44, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 85 and 84, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 21), opening up a space where Artichoke encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 66, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
A 11-point LRV gap (85 vs 74) makes Yellow Tail the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 85 vs 83), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 51), opening up a space where Pigeon encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 12, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 8, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 68, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 41), opening up a space where Dix Blue encloses it.
At LRV 85 vs 12, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 45, Yellow Tail is decisively the brighter choice.
Yellow Tail reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.