Best Bronze

With an LRV of about 9, Best Bronze 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.

Best Bronze in other brands

• Hiking Boots Kelly-Moore KM5762-5 Brown Very close ΔE 0.4
• Marshland Asian Paints K164 Brown Very close ΔE 0.7
• Mud Bath Plascon Y2-E1-1 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Friar's Brown Glidden PPG1024-7 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Friar's Brown PPG 1024-7 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Cedar Woods Berger Paints 8A2757 Brown Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Superior Bronze Sherwin-Williams 6152 Brown
• Van Dyke Brown Sherwin-Williams 7041 Dark 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 Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Best Bronze warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 13.0 and a value of 1.7 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Best Bronze?

Hiking Boots (KM5762-5), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Best Bronze?

≈ 9. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.