Smoke

With an LRV of about 20, Smoke 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.

Smoke in other brands

• Surf Tikkurila S500 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Liquid Mercury Behr N510-5 Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Victorian Pewter Johnstone's Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Grey Splendor Dulux UK 1253196 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• QUAILS LOVER Nippon Paint NP PRO 0539 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Downing Slate Sherwin-Williams 2819 Gray Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Cos Benjamin Moore 1483 Gray
• Quarry Benjamin Moore 1568 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 Smoke warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -4.6 and a value of -0.7 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Tikkurila color to Smoke?

Surf (S500), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Smoke?

≈ 20. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.