Topsoil

With an LRV of about 6, Topsoil 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.

Topsoil in other brands

• Deep Forest Behr BXC-12 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Ficus Tikkurila N378 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Foxhall Green Sherwin-Williams 9184 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Aged Pine Valspar 6011-5 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Midnight Mountain Johnstone's Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.6
• Vintage Green Dulux Australia SG5E8 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.7

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Vintage Benjamin Moore 462 Grayish Green
• Waller Benjamin Moore CW-510 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 Turns olive
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns dark green
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Topsoil warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 5.2 and a value of -4.6 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Topsoil?

Deep Forest (BXC-12), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Topsoil?

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