Black Bamboo

With an LRV of about 11, Black Bamboo absorbs most of the light that reaches it. It makes a wall recede and a room feel smaller, and it needs good light to show its color. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Black Bamboo in other brands

• Clearfield Kelly-Moore KM3896-5 Gray Very close ΔE 1.5
• Bs B Tikkurila 27 Gray Very close ΔE 1.5
• Enchanted Forest Asian Paints 8389 Gray Very close ΔE 1.5
• Hempel 17100 Hempel Gray Very close ΔE 1.5
• Bogle Dulux Australia SG5F7 Gray Very close ΔE 1.5
• Shaded Fern Glidden 30GY 10/048 Gray Very close ΔE 1.6

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Bonsai Trunk Behr N380-6 Gray
• Deep Forest Behr BXC-12 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as gray
• Protanopia Reads as gray
• Tritanopia Reads as gray
• Achromatopsia Reads as gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns olive
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns olive
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Black Bamboo warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 5.5 and a value of -2.8 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Black Bamboo?

Clearfield (KM3896-5), at ΔE 1.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Black Bamboo?

≈ 11. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.