Basque Green

With an LRV of about 11, Basque Green 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.

Basque Green in other brands

• 100% Laurier Flexa Olive Very close ΔE 1.1
• Dufflebag Green MyPerfectColor MP795 Olive Very close ΔE 1.5
• Verdigris Resene Olive Very close ΔE 1.7
• Wimbledon Green Asian Paints 9824 Olive Close ΔE 2.2
• Evernia Johnstone's Olive Close ΔE 2.2
• Scott's Pine Dulux Australia S20C9 Olive Close ΔE 2.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Relentless Olive Sherwin-Williams 6425 Olive
• Secret Garden Sherwin-Williams 6181 Grayish Green

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 Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Basque Green warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 25.5 and a value of -7.8 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Flexa color to Basque Green?

100% Laurier (Flexa), at ΔE 1.1. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Basque Green?

≈ 11. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.