Stonecutter

With an LRV of about 7, Stonecutter 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.

Stonecutter in other brands

• Iron Ore Kelly-Moore AC257-5 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.3
• Black Sea Asian Paints 9469 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Black Sable Behr 730F-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Black Forest Glidden PPG1012-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Black Forest PPG 1012-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Green Guide Nerolac 4563 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Mythic Benjamin Moore CSP-510 Gray
• Soot Benjamin Moore 2129-20 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as dark gray
• Protanopia Reads as dark gray
• Tritanopia Reads as dark gray
• 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 Stonecutter warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -3.0 and a value of -2.9 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Stonecutter?

Iron Ore (AC257-5), at ΔE 0.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Stonecutter?

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