Brevity Brown

With an LRV of about 10, Brevity Brown 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.

Brevity Brown in other brands

• Congo Brown Pratt & Lambert 7-18 Brown Very close ΔE 0.6
• Double Chocolate Behr PMD-108 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Auberge Benjamin Moore 2106-20 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Rich Mocha Dunn-Edwards DEA159 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Chocolate Melt Berger Paints 7A0344 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Nut Brown Asian Paints 0419 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Tanbark Sherwin-Williams 6061 Brown
• Fairfax Brown Sherwin-Williams 2856 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 Brevity Brown warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 13.9 and a value of 10.8 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Pratt & Lambert color to Brevity Brown?

Congo Brown (7-18), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Brevity Brown?

≈ 10. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.