Graphic Charcoal

With an LRV of about 11, Graphic Charcoal 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.

Graphic Charcoal in other brands

• Rhine Castle Plascon 54 Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Knight's Armor PPG 1001-6 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Knight's Armor Glidden PPG1001-6 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Bs A Tikkurila 13 Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Dark Chimney Jotun 4056 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Hempel 15820 Hempel Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Welded Iron Behr HDC-AC-17A Gray
• Cracked Pepper Behr PPU18-01 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 Graphic Charcoal warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -0.6 and b value of -0.8 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest Plascon color to Graphic Charcoal?

Rhine Castle (54), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Graphic Charcoal?

≈ 11. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.