Oregano Spice

With an LRV of about 24, Oregano Spice 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.

Oregano Spice in other brands

• Sweet Annie Johnstone's Yellow Very close ΔE 1.0
• Clay Creek Resene Olive Very close ΔE 1.5
• Green Gold Asian Paints 0342 Yellow Very close ΔE 1.5
• Soft Olive Met. MyPerfectColor MP27564 Yellow Very close ΔE 1.6
• Mountain Olive Valspar 6007-4C Yellow Very close ΔE 1.7
• Sheraton Sage Sherwin-Williams 14 Yellow Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Dried Rosemary Behr S350-4A Yellow
• Truly Olive Behr S350-6 Olive

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns olive
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns olive
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Oregano Spice warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 19.7 and a value of -3.6 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Johnstone's color to Oregano Spice?

Sweet Annie (Johnstone's), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Oregano Spice?

≈ 24. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.