Backdrop

With an LRV of about 20, Backdrop 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.

Backdrop in other brands

• Lost Summit Behr ECC-15-1 Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Ghost Ship PPG 15-20 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Ghost Ship Glidden PPG15-20 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Porcini Benjamin Moore CSP-195 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Timber Land Asian Paints 8759 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Vintage Brown Jotun 12119 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Hammered Silver Sherwin-Williams 2840 Orange
• Griffin Sherwin-Williams 7026 Brown

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Backdrop warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 7.7 and a value of 2.6 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Backdrop?

Lost Summit (ECC-15-1), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Backdrop?

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