Lunar Surface

With an LRV of about 48, Lunar Surface 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.

Lunar Surface in other brands

• Nickel Back Kelly-Moore KM3827-1 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Urban Sunrise Valspar 4004-1B Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Cronkite C2 Paint C2-991 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Gray Stone PPG 1009-4 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Gray Stone Glidden PPG1009-4 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Silver Moon Asian Paints K093 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.8

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Burnished Metal Behr UL260-17 Light Gray
• Sharkskin Behr PPU25-04 Light Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Lunar Surface warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -1.6 and b value of 1.2 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Lunar Surface?

Nickel Back (KM3827-1), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Lunar Surface?

≈ 48. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.