Intrigue

With an LRV of about 25, Intrigue 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.

Intrigue in other brands

• Lincoln Green KILZ TB-68 Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Grey Heron Johnstone's Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Hempel 44032 Hempel Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Nephrite Tikkurila N494 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Valley Hills Behr 710F-5 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Dowager Hallman Lindsay 442 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Cloudy Benjamin Moore 2122-30 Light Gray
• Vintage Benjamin Moore 1455 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 Turns grayish green
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Intrigue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of 3.3 and a value of -4.5 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest KILZ color to Intrigue?

Lincoln Green (TB-68), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Intrigue?

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