Midnight

With an LRV of about 8, Midnight 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.

Midnight in other brands

• A Black Angus Kelly-Moore 97 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Witchcraft PPG 1037-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Witchcraft Glidden PPG1037-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Chimney Smoke Valspar 4010-1 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Sled Behr 750F-6 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Basically Black Dulux UK 1998081 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Flint Benjamin Moore AF-560 Gray
• Plum Benjamin Moore CSP-540 Dark 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 dark gray
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns dark gray
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Midnight warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -3.1 and a value of -1.1 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Midnight?

A Black Angus (97), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Midnight?

≈ 8. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.