Cloak Gray

With an LRV of about 11, Cloak Gray 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.

Cloak Gray in other brands

• Bentonite Asian Paints 8230 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• R5120L Crown Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Bison Gray MyPerfectColor MP5765 Gray Very close ΔE 1.9
• Dark Shadows Behr MQ5-02 Gray Very close ΔE 1.9
• Hempel 14002 Hempel Gray Very close ΔE 2.0
• TVT S488 Tikkurila Gray Close ΔE 2.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Grapy Sherwin-Williams 7629 Gray
• Perle Noir Sherwin-Williams 9154 Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Cloak Gray warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -2.6 and a value of 1.9 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Cloak Gray?

Bentonite (8230), at ΔE 1.2. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Cloak Gray?

≈ 11. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.