Boreal

With an LRV of about 20, Boreal 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.

Boreal in other brands

• F3180R Crown Grayish Green Very close ΔE 0.9
• Green Hills Nippon Paint NP BGG 1765D Grayish Green Very close ΔE 1.0
• Jet Fighter Nerolac 5001 Grayish Green Very close ΔE 1.2
• Golden Sage MyPerfectColor MP15787 Grayish Green Very close ΔE 1.3
• Dusty Fern Johnstone's Grayish Green Very close ΔE 1.4
• Boxwood Dunn-Edwards DEC778 Gray Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Wethersfield Moss Behr 460F-4 Green
• Pine Mountain Behr N420-6 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 Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Boreal warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 4.4 and a value of -7.1 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Crown color to Boreal?

F3180R (Crown), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Boreal?

≈ 20. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.