Chateau Brown

With an LRV of about 8, Chateau 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.

Chateau Brown in other brands

• Iced Espresso Behr PMD-91 Brown Very close ΔE 0.7
• Bear in Mind Dunn-Edwards DE6042 Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Sarsaparilla PPG 1018-7 Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Sarsaparilla Glidden PPG1018-7 Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Caffeine Asian Paints 8653 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Exotic Spice 1 Dulux UK 1187470 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Less Brown Sherwin-Williams 6040 Gray
• Turkish Coffee Sherwin-Williams 6076 Dark Brown

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Chateau Brown warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 6.7 and a value of 5.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Chateau Brown?

Iced Espresso (PMD-91), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Chateau Brown?

≈ 8. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.