Chestnut

With an LRV of about 7, Chestnut 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.

Chestnut in other brands

• Fizzy Cola Asian Paints 9987 Red Very close ΔE 0.5
• Poisonberry Behr BXC-18 Red Very close ΔE 0.5
• Berry Crush Hallman Lindsay 81 Red Very close ΔE 0.8
• TVT 0384 Tikkurila Red Very close ΔE 1.3
• Wine Cellar Kelly-Moore KM4449-5 Red Very close ΔE 1.4
• Shaker Red Vista C-1326 Red Very close ΔE 1.5

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Apache Benjamin Moore 1295 Red
• Bewitched Benjamin Moore CSP-450 Dark Red

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Chestnut warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 10.7 and a value of 21.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Chestnut?

Fizzy Cola (9987), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Chestnut?

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