Ink Black

With an LRV of about 7, Ink Black 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.

Ink Black in other brands

• Salem Black Dunn-Edwards DE6343 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.0
• Hempel 17240 Hempel Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Black Benjamin Moore 2132-30 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Twisted Nippon Paint NP AC 3456A Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Cyberspace Sherwin-Williams 7076 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Railings Farrow & Ball 31 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Dark Shadows Behr MQ5-02 Gray
• Limousine Leather Behr MQ5-05 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Ink Black warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -2.9 and a value of -0.7 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dunn-Edwards color to Ink Black?

Salem Black (DE6343), at ΔE 0.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Ink Black?

≈ 7. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.