Dark Ash

With an LRV of about 15, Dark Ash 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.

Dark Ash in other brands

• Bracken Tenement Blue Slate Pratt & Lambert CW723 Gray Very close ΔE 0.4
• Fresco Tikkurila Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Resilient Grey Berger Paints 8D2696 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Paris Paving Plascon 53 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Space Grey Jotun 5255 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Dusk Cloud Asian Paints 8287 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Slate Gray - Gloss Behr 6795 Gray
• Graphic Charcoal Behr N500-6 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 Dark Ash warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -1.1 and b value of -0.4 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest Pratt & Lambert color to Dark Ash?

Bracken Tenement Blue Slate (CW723), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Dark Ash?

≈ 15. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.