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Spring Kitchen Palette — Fresh Pale Green & Butter Yellow

A cheerful pastel kitchen in fresh pale green, crisp white, soft butter yellow, and warm wood tan — sunny, bright, and full of life. Every color matched to real paint you can buy.

By Jessica Williams · Color Stylist & Interior Editor

Fresh Pale Green
Cabinets
Kompozit Balance · 0748
#D1DBC2
LRV 68
Crisp White
Walls & Trim
Kompozit Sugar Dust · 0011
#F8F6ED
LRV 92
Butter Yellow
Accent
Kompozit Bermuda Son · 0797
#F0E9BE
LRV 81
Wood Tan
Counters & Floors
Kompozit Back to Basics · 0255
#C49A69
LRV 36
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A spring kitchen is all about that just-after-the-rain freshness, and this palette bottles it. The cabinets wear a fresh pale green — soft, a little grayed, like the first new leaves — so the room feels alive and sunny without going neon. It’s a color that makes cooking feel cheerful.

A crisp white on the walls and trim keeps everything bright and clean, giving the green plenty of room to shine and bouncing light around the space. That white is what keeps the whole scheme feeling open and airy.

Then a soft butter yellow adds a ray of sunshine — on a backsplash, bar stools, or open shelving — and wood tan grounds it through counters and floors so the pastels feel warm rather than candy-like. Pale green leads, white brightens, butter brings the sun, and wood keeps it cozy. It’s spring, all year long.

Buy These Colors

Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Kompozit first; take any SKU to the store — these mix on demand.

Fresh Pale Green
#D2DEC0 · LRV 70 · Cabinets
Kompozit Balance · 0748 ΔE 1.81
Backdrop Cookies & Cream · BD-CC ΔE 9.15
Behr Mountain Haze · 400E-3 ΔE 0.74
Benjamin Moore Garland Green · 429 ΔE 0.7
Clare Greenish · PNT100-LT-68 ΔE 7.27
Dunn-Edwards Endive · DE5618 ΔE 2.88
Farrow & Ball Green Ground · No. 206 ΔE 5.08
Magnolia Home Mineral Green · JG-67 ΔE 4.46
PPG / Glidden Breezeway · 11-21 ΔE 2.76
Sherwin-Williams Cucumber · SW 6722 ΔE 0.68
Valspar Cat Woman · V060-2 ΔE 1.35
Crisp White
#FAF8F4 · LRV 94 · Walls & Trim
Kompozit Sugar Dust · 0011 ΔE 2.43
Backdrop Tabula Rasa · BD-TR ΔE 3.54
Behr Ultra Pure White® · PPU18-06 ΔE 1.01
Benjamin Moore Snowfall White · 2144-70 ΔE 3.11
Clare Whipped · PNT100-LT-02 ΔE 1.23
Dunn-Edwards Milk Glass · DEW358 ΔE 1.41
Farrow & Ball All White · No. 2005 ΔE 0.5
Magnolia Home True White · JG-21 ΔE 1.78
PPG / Glidden Delicate White · 1001-1 ΔE 2.02
Sherwin-Williams High Reflective White · SW 7757 ΔE 1.61
Valspar Ultra White · 7006-24 ΔE 1.23
Butter Yellow
#F3E8C2 · LRV 81 · Accent
Kompozit Bermuda Son · 0797 ΔE 2.23
Backdrop Don't Eat the Yellow Snow · BD-DS ΔE 4.27
Behr Cottonseed · 340E-2 ΔE 1
Benjamin Moore Happy Valley · 212 ΔE 0.8
Clare Like Buttah · PNT100-LT-62 ΔE 6.79
Dunn-Edwards Limesicle · DE5484 ΔE 1.96
Farrow & Ball House White · No. 2012 ΔE 2.44
Magnolia Home Ambient Light · JG-38 ΔE 1.54
PPG / Glidden Barely Butter · 1205-3 ΔE 1.57
Sherwin-Williams Lily · SW 6693 ΔE 0
Valspar Desert Flower · 6008-5A ΔE 1.66
Wood Tan
#BE9869 · LRV 34 · Counters & Floors
Kompozit Back to Basics · 0255 ΔE 1.41
Backdrop Anita · BD-AN ΔE 9.91
Behr Wilmington Tan · 270F-5 ΔE 1.8
Benjamin Moore Sandy Valley · 1112 ΔE 0.83
Clare Good as Gold · PNT100-DP-59 ΔE 3.16
Dunn-Edwards New Cork · DE6180 ΔE 3.14
Farrow & Ball India Yellow · No. 66 ΔE 5.15
Magnolia Home Juniper Tree · JG-166 ΔE 10.56
PPG / Glidden Golden Granola · 1094-5 ΔE 2.24
Sherwin-Williams Mannered Gold · SW 6130 ΔE 1.41
Valspar Corky · V088-4 ΔE 2.76

Questions

do pale green and butter yellow clash in a kitchen?

Not at these soft levels. Both are pale and slightly grayed, so they sit beside each other like flowers and new leaves — fresh and harmonious rather than busy. Keep the yellow as an accent and the green leads cleanly.

how do i make a kitchen feel like spring year-round?

Lean on light, fresh color and lots of white. The pale green cabinets and crisp white walls here keep things bright, the butter yellow adds sunshine, and warm wood grounds it. Add greenery and natural light and the room feels like spring in any season.

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