Smoked Tan

With an LRV of about 38, Smoked Tan 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.

Smoked Tan in other brands

• Beach Wood Plascon Y3-D2-1 Beige Very close ΔE 0.6
• Gray Area Sherwin-Williams 7052 Beige Very close ΔE 0.7
• Hempel 24552 Hempel Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Indian Benjamin Moore 985 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Dawn Mist Pratt & Lambert 32-25 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Mud House Nippon Paint NP N 3230T Beige Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Pasha Brown Behr MQ2-51 Beige
• Gray Squirrel Behr N320-5 Beige

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as beige
• Protanopia Reads as beige
• Tritanopia Reads as light gray
• 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 Smoked Tan warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 9.6 and a value of 0.9 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Plascon color to Smoked Tan?

Beach Wood (Y3-D2-1), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Smoked Tan?

≈ 38. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.