Elephant Skin

With an LRV of about 29, Elephant Skin 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.

Elephant Skin in other brands

• Lazy Afternoon PPG 1007-5 Gray Very close ΔE 0.0
• Lazy Afternoon Glidden PPG1007-5 Gray Very close ΔE 0.0
• Champignon Dulux Australia S14A4 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Umber Grey Jotun 20228 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Urban Chateau KILZ RL150 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Beowulf Nerolac 2600 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Sage Gray Behr 710F-4 Light Gray
• Classy Plum Behr N570-4 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 orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns orange
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Elephant Skin warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 4.4 and a value of 0.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest PPG color to Elephant Skin?

Lazy Afternoon (1007-5), at ΔE 0.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Elephant Skin?

≈ 29. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.