Chocolate Powder

With an LRV of about 28, Chocolate Powder 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.

Chocolate Powder in other brands

• Tete A Tete Plascon O4-D1-4 Beige Very close ΔE 0.6
• Delta Sandbar Valspar 2005-9C Beige Very close ΔE 1.1
• Woodwork Berger Paints 8D2561 Beige Very close ΔE 1.3
• Clove KILZ LM260 Beige Very close ΔE 1.3
• Cozy Cocoa Behr BNC-13 Beige Very close ΔE 1.3
• Sandstone Asian Paints 3211 Orange Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Trusty Tan Sherwin-Williams 6087 Beige
• Down Home Sherwin-Williams 6081 Brown

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as beige
• Protanopia Reads as olive
• Tritanopia Reads as red
• Achromatopsia Reads as gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns orange
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Chocolate Powder warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 12.6 and a value of 6.7 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Plascon color to Chocolate Powder?

Tete A Tete (O4-D1-4), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Chocolate Powder?

≈ 28. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.