Creamy (SW 7012) vs Accessible Beige (SW 7036)

Living room with walls painted Sherwin-Williams Creamy SW 7012 (simulated) — Creamy SW 7012#EFE8DB, LRV 81

Living room with walls painted Sherwin-Williams Accessible Beige SW 7036 (simulated) — Accessible Beige SW 7036#D1C7B8, LRV 58

Illustrative room. Screen colors vary; test a sample before you paint.

Quick decision

Lighter: Creamy, LRV 81 vs 58.
Warmer: Accessible Beige (Lab b* 8.8 vs 7.2). Creamy reads warm white; Accessible Beige reads greige.
North rooms: Creamy keeps more brightness (L* 88.3 vs 76.7 in north light); both drift gray about equally.
Trim that works: Ivory Lace SW 7013, #ECE5D8, LRV 79: the Sherwin-Williams white closest in hue to both.
Closeness: deltaE 7.6, clearly different. At 7.6, treat them as different colors.

See each color

CreamySherwin-Williams, SW 7012LRV 81, #EFE8DB

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Accessible BeigeSherwin-Williams, SW 7036LRV 58, #D1C7B8

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Creamy (SW 7012) is much lighter than Accessible Beige (SW 7036) and slightly cooler: LRV 81 vs 58, deltaE 7.6 (clearly different).

Side by side

Measure	Creamy	Accessible Beige	Gap
Brand	Sherwin-Williams	Sherwin-Williams
Color code	SW 7012	SW 7036
Hex	#EFE8DB	#D1C7B8
RGB	239, 232, 219	209, 199, 184
HSL	39°, 38%, 90%	36°, 21%, 77%
LRV (light reflectance value)	81	58	+23
Lab L*	92.2	80.7	+11.5
Lab a*	0.2	0.9	−0.8
Lab b*	7.2	8.8	−1.6
Undertone	Warm Yellow	Warm Sandy
Temperature	warm	warm
Color family	Off-white	Beige

Same paint, two kinds of light

Creamy (SW 7012), published as #EFE8DB

North light (cool, indirect)
#DDDED9

South light (warm, direct)
#FFF2DB

Accessible Beige (SW 7036), published as #D1C7B8

North light (cool, indirect)
#C0BDB6

South light (warm, direct)
#E2D1B8

These swatches and the rooms above are a simulation, not a measurement. How the visualizer works

Which should you pick

Rules of thumb computed from the LRV and Lab values in the table above; no room test was done.

Pick Creamy (SW 7012) for a small room or a north-facing room, because it is 23 LRV points lighter (81 vs 58), so it bounces back more of the limited light
Pick Creamy (SW 7012) for a south-facing room, because its Lab b* is 7.2 against 8.8, so it is the cooler of the two and offsets warm direct sun
Pick Accessible Beige (SW 7036) to warm a north-facing room, because it is the warmer of the two (Lab b* 8.8), which counters cool indirect light

Closest matches to Creamy in other brands

Closest matches to Accessible Beige in other brands

Common questions

Is Creamy the same color as Accessible Beige?: They are clearly different: a CIEDE2000 difference of 7.6. Creamy and Accessible Beige are different colors.
Which is lighter, Creamy or Accessible Beige?: Creamy, with an LRV of 81 against 58.

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Published 2026-10-01. Updated 2026-10-01.

Sources: LRV and hex as published by the manufacturer, via PaintDB (CC BY 4.0). Color differences are CIEDE2000 values computed by this site from the hex values (data snapshot 2026-10-01). Color names and codes belong to their manufacturers.