Brown

With an LRV of about 25, Brown 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. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Brown in other brands

• Auburn Tresses Kelly-Moore KM611-M Red Very close ΔE 1.0
• Red Brick Jotun 2762 Red Very close ΔE 1.2
• Pharlap Resene Red Very close ΔE 1.7
• Smoke Bush Rose Behr S170-5 Red Very close ΔE 1.7
• Cameo 70 Caparol 3D Cameo 70 Red Very close ΔE 1.8
• TVT J477 Tikkurila Red Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Soft Benjamin Moore 2094-40 Red
• Hickory Benjamin Moore 2103-40 Red

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as gray
• 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 Brown warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 9.8 and a value of 14.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Brown?

Auburn Tresses (KM611-M), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Brown?

≈ 25. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.