Thermal

With an LRV of about 7, Thermal 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.

Thermal in other brands

• Black Moss Asian Paints K298 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Lunar Eclipse Dunn-Edwards DE5776 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• Deep River Green Valspar 5010-3 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Rocky Creek Kelly-Moore KM4869-5 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.4
• Calm Interlude Hallman Lindsay 501 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.5
• Amazon Benjamin Moore 2136-30 Gray Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Underwater Behr PPU12-20 Gray
• Carbon Behr N520-7 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as dark gray
• Protanopia Reads as gray
• Tritanopia Reads as grayish green
• Achromatopsia Reads as dark gray

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Thermal warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -3.4 and a value of -6.1 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Thermal?

Black Moss (K298), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Thermal?

≈ 7. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.