Brown

With an LRV of about 7, 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

• Dark Soil Asian Paints K281 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• TVT N483 Tikkurila Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Fenced In Dulux Australia S09B8 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Expresso Nippon Paint NP AC 2135A Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Havana Coffee Behr N210-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Roast Coffee Jotun 2549 Dark Brown Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Stone Benjamin Moore 2112-30 Gray
• Bittersweet Benjamin Moore 2114-10 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as gray
• Protanopia Reads as dark gray
• Tritanopia Reads as red
• Achromatopsia Reads as dark gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns dark brown
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns dark brown
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Brown warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 6.2 and a value of 4.2 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Brown?

Dark Soil (K281), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Brown?

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