Translucent Silk

With an LRV of about 69, Translucent Silk reflects a little over half the light that reaches it, so it stays light in a north-facing room without looking stark. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Translucent Silk in other brands

• Cherubic C2 Paint C2-850 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Adagio Nerolac 2723 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Maybe Mushroom PPG 1020-2 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Maybe Mushroom Glidden PPG1020-2 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Clay Angel Valspar 7002-1 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Always Neutral Hallman Lindsay 559 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.6

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Light Touch Behr PPL-52 White
• Wheat Bread Behr 720C-3 Light Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns light orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns beige
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Translucent Silk warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 7.0 and a value of 1.0 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest C2 Paint color to Translucent Silk?

Cherubic (C2-850), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Translucent Silk?

≈ 69. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.