The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Late Wheat
Benjamin Moore · CC-240
Straw, not butter
Moonlight
Benjamin Moore · 2020-60
The yellow that lights a room from inside
In real rooms
Every room, each colorMoonlight
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersMoonlight is the lighter of the two at LRV 83.37, 36 points above Late Wheat at LRV 47.41. Both read warm. Both belong to the yellows family. For a whole room, Moonlight is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Late Wheat is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsLate Wheat is a muted golden yellow with enough tan and green in it to stay quiet — the color of a field in September rather than a lemon. At LRV 47 it sits mid-tone, so on cabinetry it reads as a real color without ever shouting, and it has none of the acidity that makes most yellows hard to live with.
Moonlight — now sold by Benjamin Moore under the name Sicilian Lemon, same number 2020-60 — is a pale, clear butter yellow with an LRV of 83. It is light enough to behave like a tinted white in a bright room and cheerful enough to make a north-facing one feel as if the sun came out.