Caviar

With an LRV of about 3, Caviar 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.

Caviar in other brands

• IKEA186 IKEA Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Black Benjamin Moore 2132-10 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Lamp Black Little Greene Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Black Cat Kelly-Moore KM4883-5 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Zanzibar Tavern Plascon GR-B12 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Mine Shaft Resene Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Iron Ore Sherwin-Williams 7069 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Caviar warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of 0.7 and b value of -0.5 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest IKEA color to Caviar?

IKEA186 (186), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Caviar?

≈ 3. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.