Charcoal

With an LRV of about 14, Charcoal 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.

Charcoal in other brands

• Polished Pewter Vista C-1463 Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Thunder Clouds Dulux UK 1977192 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• 85% Grind Flexa Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Venato 15 Caparol 3D Venato 15 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Pointed Rock Dunn-Edwards DE6363 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Liberty Bell Gray Behr HDC-CL-04G Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Steel Benjamin Moore 2121-20 Gray
• Iron Benjamin Moore 2134-30 Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Charcoal warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -0.7 and b value of -1.5 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest Vista color to Charcoal?

Polished Pewter (C-1463), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Charcoal?

≈ 14. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.