Sweet As A Peach
HGSW 1096 · #F3C1AB · LRV 60 — warm red tone, light — bounces daylight without going clinical.
- 1Vintage Tea Rose47
- 2Pink Quartz53
- 3Sweet As A Peach60
- 4Romance66
- 5First Light76
What Color Is Sweet As A Peach, Really?
Sweet As A Peach reads as a warm red tone — light — bounces daylight without going clinical. The notes below cover how HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams HGSW 1096 behaves in different light and the closest matches at competing US brands.
Best Rooms and Uses for Sweet As A Peach
Sweet As A Peach 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. Soft pinks flatter bedrooms and nurseries; deeper ones make a confident statement.
How Lighting Changes Sweet As A Peach
At LRV 60, Sweet As A Peach is a light color that bounces daylight around a room without tipping into stark white. Its red 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 Sweet As A Peach 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 HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams HGSW 1096 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 | Cosmetic PeachSW 6618 · Sherwin-Williams | 0.0 | 60 | Color page → |
| Behr | Pumpkin MousseHDC-FL13-4 · Behr | 1.7 | 61 | Color page → |
| Benjamin Moore | Del Ray Peach067 · Benjamin Moore | 1.6 | 57 | Color page → |
| Valspar | Special Peach2004-6B · Valspar | 3.9 | 61.6 | Color page → |
| PPG / Glidden | SiestaPPG1200-3 · PPG / Glidden | 2.2 | 60 | Color page → |
| Glidden | SiestaPPG1200-3 · Glidden | 3.1 | 60 | Color page → |
Similar HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams Colors
The nearest shades to Sweet As A Peach within HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams'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 #F3C1AB in HSL space. Pair Sweet As A Peach with one accent and one neutral — the swatches below are starting points, not final picks.
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