If you love Farrow & Ball’s Fruit Fool but want it from a more widely stocked range, you have options — it’s a light pink. PaintDial’s closest match from another UK brand is Red 03 by Lick (very close), with every other close match ranked below.
Red 03 by Lick is the closest match from any other brand (very close) — and it holds Fruit Fool’s lightness, warmth and saturation alike. The closest value-tier option is Cranapple by Johnstone's (very close), darker (about 3 LRV points), slightly warmer and slightly more saturated. A warmer match reads warmer again in a south-facing room that gets direct sun. No other brand gets within a near-identical match of Fruit Fool — it’s one of the more distinctive colours in the library, so expect a visible difference whichever you pick. LRV is estimated from each brand’s swatch, so order testers before committing.
Below is every genuinely close match to Fruit Fool from the other eight brands — ranked purely by closeness, so where one brand has several near-misses, they all appear. For the single best match per brand, see the Fruit Fool colour page.
The nearest Dulux colour is Burnt Autumn 2 (close). It won’t be pixel-perfect, so order a tester before committing.
Of the close matches, Cranapple by Johnstone's is the best-value option (value, very close).
The list shows every genuinely close match from other brands, ranked nearest-first by perceptual colour difference — including several from one brand where they’re all close. Screens differ from paint on a wall, so treat these as a shortlist and always order tester pots.
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See the full Fruit Fool colour page →