Avocado

With an LRV of about 20, Avocado 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.

Avocado in other brands

• Olive Wood KILZ LF100-01 Olive Very close ΔE 1.0
• Smoke Benjamin Moore 1519 Olive Very close ΔE 1.3
• Land Before Time Vista C-359 Olive Very close ΔE 1.7
• Land Before Time Hallman Lindsay 360 Olive Very close ΔE 1.7
• Rattan Palm Johnstone's Olive Very close ΔE 1.8
• Marshland Dulux Australia S17C6 Olive Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Renwick Olive Sherwin-Williams 2815 Yellow
• Roycroft Brass Sherwin-Williams 2843 Brown

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Avocado warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 18.2 and a value of -1.7 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest KILZ color to Avocado?

Olive Wood (LF100-01), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Avocado?

≈ 20. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.