Mountain Olive

With an LRV of about 12, Mountain Olive 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.

Mountain Olive in other brands

• Bamboo Grove Asian Paints 8405 Olive Very close ΔE 0.7
• TVT 0459 Tikkurila Olive Very close ΔE 0.8
• IKEA148 IKEA Olive Very close ΔE 1.2
• Moss Island Plascon Y6-E1-2 Olive Very close ΔE 1.2
• Toadstool C2 Paint C2-902 Olive Very close ΔE 1.4
• Forest Benjamin Moore 1498 Grayish Green Very close ΔE 1.7

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Peppergrass Behr N350-6 Olive
• Freshwater Marsh Behr ECC-37-3 Grayish Green

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as olive
• Tritanopia Reads as gray
• 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 Mountain Olive warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 11.5 and a value of -3.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Mountain Olive?

Bamboo Grove (8405), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Mountain Olive?

≈ 12. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.