Dark Truffle

With an LRV of about 8, Dark Truffle 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 Truffle in other brands

• TVT N483 Tikkurila Gray Very close ΔE 0.3
• Noble Steed Dulux Australia S07B8 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Gargoyle Vista C-549 Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Expresso Nippon Paint NP AC 2135A Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Dark Soil Asian Paints K281 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Brown Benjamin Moore 2112-20 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Museum Behr MQ2-44 Brown
• Off Broadway Behr MQ1-35 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Dark Truffle warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 6.0 and a value of 3.7 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Tikkurila color to Dark Truffle?

TVT N483 (Tikkurila), at ΔE 0.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Dark Truffle?

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