Arresting Auburn

With an LRV of about 5, Arresting Auburn 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.

Arresting Auburn in other brands

• Tempered Chocolate Dulux UK 1839908 Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.3
• Brown Ebony MyPerfectColor MP13799 Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.4
• Red Marble Dulux Australia S03C9 Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.5
• PWD Brown Plascon G 18 Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.6
• Congo Brown Resene Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.9
• Raphael Benjamin Moore CC-2 Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Carriage Door Sherwin-Williams 7594 Red
• Rookwood Dark Red Sherwin-Williams 2801 Dark Red

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as dark gray
• Tritanopia Reads as dark 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 Arresting Auburn warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 8.9 and a value of 16.2 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux UK color to Arresting Auburn?

Tempered Chocolate (1839908), at ΔE 1.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Arresting Auburn?

≈ 5. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.