Shiitake

With an LRV of about 32, Shiitake 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.

Shiitake in other brands

• Time Capsule Dulux Australia S13C4 Beige Very close ΔE 0.6
• Rain Barrel Vista C-1429 Beige Very close ΔE 0.6
• Rain Barrel Hallman Lindsay historic-rain-barrel Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Cuppa Coffee Johnstone's Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Foggy Night Kelly-Moore KM4580-2 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Sticks & Stones Sherwin-Williams 7503 Beige Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Montauk Sands Behr HDC-NT-20G Beige
• Ottertail Behr N220-5 Orange

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Shiitake warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 9.1 and a value of 2.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Shiitake?

Time Capsule (S13C4), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Shiitake?

≈ 32. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.