Mink

With an LRV of about 6, Mink 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.

Mink in other brands

• Nourish .05 Colorhouse Nourish-05 Dark Brown Very close ΔE 0.6
• Conker Johnstone's Dark Brown Very close ΔE 0.6
• Accented Brown Nippon Paint NP N 3386A Dark Brown Very close ΔE 0.7
• Rave Raisin Behr HDC-MD-13 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Oxford Brown Kelly-Moore 417 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• 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 dark gray
• 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 Mink warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 7.1 and a value of 4.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Colorhouse color to Mink?

Nourish .05 (Nourish-05), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Mink?

≈ 6. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.