Forbidden Red

With an LRV of about 10, Forbidden Red 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.

Forbidden Red in other brands

• A Cocktail Sauce Kelly-Moore 6 Red Very close ΔE 0.5
• Scarlet Oak Nippon Paint NP R 1358A Red Very close ΔE 0.6
• Raging Reds Berger Paints 1A0374 Red Very close ΔE 0.8
• Rusty Red Glidden 10YR 10/312 Red Very close ΔE 1.0
• Roasted Pepper Johnstone's Red Very close ΔE 1.1
• Lhasa Temple Asian Paints 9986 Red Very close ΔE 1.6

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Gallery Red Behr 150F-6 Red
• Tuscan Russet Behr UL110-1 Red

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Forbidden Red warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 13.3 and a value of 28.8 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Forbidden Red?

A Cocktail Sauce (6), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Forbidden Red?

≈ 10. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.