Red Pepper

With an LRV of about 8, Red Pepper 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.

Red Pepper in other brands

• Orleans C2 Paint C2-536 Red Very close ΔE 0.6
• Palace Benjamin Moore CW-255 Red Very close ΔE 0.7
• BOLD MAROON Nippon Paint NP PRO 0566 Red Very close ΔE 1.4
• Sequoia Redwood Kelly-Moore 159 Red Very close ΔE 1.4
• Wild Cherry Pratt & Lambert 4-19 Red Very close ΔE 1.6
• Hempel 51320 Hempel Red Very close ΔE 1.7

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Moroccan Ruby Behr S140-6 Red
• Divine Wine Behr PPU1-02 Dark Red

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as olive
• Tritanopia Reads as red
• Achromatopsia Reads as gray

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Red Pepper warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 15.8 and a value of 24.8 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest C2 Paint color to Red Pepper?

Orleans (C2-536), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Red Pepper?

≈ 8. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.