Pale Cucumber
PPU9-17 · #D6D5BD · LRV 66 — warm yellow tone, light — bounces daylight without going clinical.
- 1Revere Pewter55
- 2Agreeable Gray60
- 3Pale Cucumber66
- 4Shoji White74
- 5Dover White83
What Color Is Pale Cucumber, Really?
Pale Cucumber reads as a warm yellow tone — light — bounces daylight without going clinical. The notes below cover how Behr PPU9-17 behaves in different light and the closest matches at competing US brands.
Best Rooms and Uses for Pale Cucumber
Pale Cucumber is an easy whole-room color for living spaces and bedrooms, and light enough to carry onto trim or a ceiling if you want a soft, seamless look. Greige-leaning neutrals like this are the safe whole-home choice when you want warmth without committing to a color.
How Lighting Changes Pale Cucumber
At LRV 66, Pale Cucumber is a light color that bounces daylight around a room without tipping into stark white. Its yellow undertone is the part to watch: it gets picked up by whatever sits next to it, so test it against your trim, floor and the room's main light before committing. It holds its undertone in most exposures, which is what makes light shades like this so forgiving room to room.
Most complaints about Pale Cucumber are a light mismatch. Upload a photo of your actual room and see it on your walls — then ask for the same wall in north light or evening lamps before you buy a single sample.
Need It From Another Brand?
Any paint counter can custom-tint Behr PPU9-17 directly. If you would rather stay in one brand's own deck, these are the closest stock matches, measured as ΔE2000. Under 2 is a difference you will not see on the wall.
| Brand | Closest color | ΔE | LRV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwin-Williams | Rice GrainSW 6155 · Sherwin-Williams | 4.9 | 64 | Color page → |
| Benjamin Moore | SpaAF-435 · Benjamin Moore | 1.1 | 64 | Color page → |
| Valspar | Lunar Tide6006-3B · Valspar | 2.4 | 67.1 | Color page → |
| PPG / Glidden | White SagePPG1125-2 · PPG / Glidden | 2.6 | 65 | Color page → |
| Glidden | Soft Herbal Sage70YY 65/090 · Glidden | 2.9 | 65 | Color page → |
| Dutch Boy | Elemental White421-1DB · Dutch Boy | 4.0 | 63 | Color page → |
Similar Behr Colors
The nearest shades to Pale Cucumber within Behr's own range, ranked by perceptual color distance — useful when you want the same look a touch lighter, darker, or warmer.
WCAG 2.1: AA is 4.5 : 1 for normal text, 3 : 1 for large text, AAA is 7 : 1.
Coordinated palette
Generated by hue-rotating #D6D5BD in HSL space. Pair Pale Cucumber with one accent and one neutral — the swatches below are starting points, not final picks.
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