Cardboard

With an LRV of about 22, Cardboard 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.

Cardboard in other brands

• Prince Paris Vista C-240 Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Howling Coyote Kelly-Moore KM4630-3 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Soft Maplewood 1 Dulux UK 1187147 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Bronco Brown Johnstone's Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Westminster Behr N270-6 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Prince Paris Hallman Lindsay 241 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Yearling Sherwin-Williams 7725 Orange
• Craft Paper Sherwin-Williams 6125 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 Cardboard warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 24.7 and a value of 8.3 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Vista color to Cardboard?

Prince Paris (C-240), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Cardboard?

≈ 22. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.