Cracked Pepper

With an LRV of about 8, Cracked Pepper 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.

Cracked Pepper in other brands

• Black Ice Kelly-Moore KMA91-5 Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• TVT Y496 Tikkurila Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Venato 10 Caparol 3D Venato 10 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Cannon Ball Dulux UK 1977029 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Puur Grind Flexa Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Cavernous Dunn-Edwards DE6364 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Hematite Behr N460-6 Gray
• Totally Black Behr HDC-MD-04 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 dark gray
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Cracked Pepper warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -0.6 and b value of -0.9 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Cracked Pepper?

Black Ice (KMA91-5), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Cracked Pepper?

≈ 8. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.