Pencil Point

With an LRV of about 11, Pencil Point 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.

Pencil Point in other brands

• Anthracite Grey Tikkurila R002 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Glazed Granite PPG 1011-6 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Glazed Granite Glidden PPG1011-6 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Pencil Sketch Asian Paints K296 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Thames Dusk Plascon 41 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Roof Slate Johnstone's Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Dark Granite Behr 780F-6 Gray
• Black Swan Behr 710F-7 Dark 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 Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Pencil Point warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -2.8 and a value of -0.7 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Tikkurila color to Pencil Point?

Anthracite Grey (R002), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Pencil Point?

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