Adaptive Shade

With an LRV of about 21, Adaptive Shade 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. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Adaptive Shade in other brands

• Randolph Benjamin Moore CW-75 Olive Very close ΔE 0.6
• Hipster Brown Jotun 10965 Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• B6210R Crown Olive Very close ΔE 0.9
• Peyton Randolph Stone Dark Pratt & Lambert CW405 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• Fireplace Mantel Hallman Lindsay 569 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• Rock Canyon Asian Paints 8463 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Studio Clay Sherwin-Williams 9172 Olive
• Cocoon Sherwin-Williams 6173 Olive

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as olive
• Tritanopia Reads as gray
• Achromatopsia Reads as gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns brown
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns brown
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Adaptive Shade warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 8.7 and a value of 0.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Benjamin Moore color to Adaptive Shade?

Randolph (CW-75), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Adaptive Shade?

≈ 21. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.