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DUTCH BOY · COLOR DECK

Dutch Boy paint colors

Dutch Boy is the mainstream value deck — a full, easy-to-read mainstream range of whites, neutrals, and saturated hues, mixed to order and backed by Sherwin-Williams color science.

1340 of the most-spec'd colors from Dutch Boy's deck, grouped into 13 families with hex, SKU, and LRV for every color — and cross-matched to the other US brands.

White
55 colors
White is the hardest color to specify well. The right white shifts under daylight, north-facing rooms, and warm-LED bulbs — and most "whites…
Gray
201 colors
Gray is the most-recommended neutral in American interiors — the safe choice that anchors a room without committing to a strong color. The "…
Neutral
197 colors
Neutrals are the colors that aren't quite gray and aren't quite tan — the warm, low-saturation in-between bucket where greige, taupe, mushro…
Black
14 colors
True black on a wall almost always looks heavier than you expected. The picks below — the "designer blacks" — sit just shy of pure black, wi…
Yellow
134 colors
Yellow is the highest-risk wall color in residential interiors — it can read cheerful and sun-warmed in the right room, or oppressive and da…
Orange
90 colors
Orange is back — not the saturated 1970s shag-carpet orange, but warm earth tones (terracotta, rust, sienna), soft peach and apricot, and th…
Red
41 colors
Red is divisive as a wall color, which is exactly why it works so well in the right room — a dining room, a powder room, or a single accent …
Pink
148 colors
Pink stopped being a kids-room-only color around 2018, when "millennial pink" started showing up on dining-room walls and powder-room cabine…
Purple
69 colors
Purple is the most under-used wall color in American interiors — and that's exactly why it lands when it does. The family splits cleanly: pa…
Blue
90 colors
Blue is the most popular color for accent walls, kitchen islands, and front doors — and also the family with the widest spread, from pale do…
Teal
107 colors
Teal is the in-between blue-green that reads moody, marine, or jewel-tone depending on which side of the family you pick. Benjamin Moore nam…
Green
111 colors
Green has quietly replaced grey as the safe-but-interesting wall color of the late 2020s. Sage Green, the soft grey-green that became the de…
Brown
83 colors
Brown is in. Pantone naming Mocha Mousse the 2025 Color of the Year confirmed what designers had been spec'ing for two years already — a ret…

About Dutch Boy paint colors

Dutch Boy colors cover everything a normal repaint needs without the boutique markup: dependable whites and ceiling tones, easygoing greiges, and a solid bench of saturated colors for accents and feature walls. As a Sherwin-Williams consumer brand, the formulas have real R&D behind them and the color matching stays consistent across the Platinum, Forever, and Dimensions lines, so a color mixed for your walls reads the same as the one mixed for your trim.

The deck is built for the homeowner painting their own rooms rather than the contractor. It's a full mainstream palette — broad enough to build a whole-home scheme — without the analysis paralysis of a designer-only fan deck, and the deeper, richer Dimensions colors give the range somewhere to go when the color is the point.

Choosing a Dutch Boy Color

Decide first whether you want a true neutral or a color with a clear undertone, pick the family, then sort by LRV to get the depth right for the room's light — higher LRV to keep a dim room bright, lower for a cozy, enveloping feel. The everyday lines hold their hide best on mid-tone walls, so save the deepest, most saturated picks for a feature wall or step up to a richer line. Grab an inexpensive sample and live with it on the actual wall for a day before committing to gallons.

Where to Buy Dutch Boy Paint

Every Dutch Boy color is mixed to order at the paint counter, so what you browse here is a real, buyable product — not a fixed, pre-canned shade. The deck lives mainly at Menards, where the full range and the Menards-exclusive Forever line sit together and the recurring 11% mail-in rebate makes the price hard to beat; you'll also find select lines at Ace and Walmart. It isn't sold at Home Depot or Lowe's, and any tinting machine can mix the deck on demand.

Matching Dutch Boy Across Brands

If you fall for a Dutch Boy shade but buy somewhere else, tap the swatch to find its nearest match at the other US brands — including Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Behr, and the Kompozit deck — so the color travels even if the brand doesn't. The match works off the real hex value, so the alternatives are genuinely close and you can compare them side by side before picking a counter.

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