Bitter Chocolate

With an LRV of about 5, Bitter Chocolate 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.

Bitter Chocolate in other brands

• Córdoba Little Greene Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.5
• Polished Leather Behr UL110-23 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.6
• Bitter Chocolate Plascon R4-E1-1 Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.7
• Blackberry Burgundy Dulux Australia S02A9 Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.8
• Enchanting Eggplant Johnstone's Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.9
• Strange Maroon Nerolac 4503 Dark Gray Close ΔE 2.1

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Deepest Mauve Sherwin-Williams 5 Red
• Raisin Sherwin-Williams 7630 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns dark brown
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns dark red
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Bitter Chocolate warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 2.8 and a value of 7.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Little Greene color to Bitter Chocolate?

Córdoba (Little Greene), at ΔE 1.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Bitter Chocolate?

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