Dusty Olive

With an LRV of about 31, Dusty Olive is a mid tone: it absorbs more light than it reflects, so it reads deeper on a large wall than on the chip. It suits accent walls and well-lit rooms. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Dusty Olive in other brands

• At Ease Soldier Sherwin-Williams 9127 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Nightingale Nippon Paint NP N 1836T Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Gettysburg Benjamin Moore HC-107 Beige Very close ΔE 0.7
• Abbeystone Plascon Y5-D1-4 Beige Very close ΔE 1.0
• Knock On Wood Kelly-Moore KM4747-3 Beige Very close ΔE 1.3
• Union Springs Dunn-Edwards DE6243 Beige Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Spartan Stone Behr 780D-5 Beige
• Witch Hazel Behr 780D-6 Olive

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Dusty Olive warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 10.7 and a value of -1.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Sherwin-Williams color to Dusty Olive?

At Ease Soldier (9127), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Dusty Olive?

≈ 31. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.