Down Home

With an LRV of about 20, Down Home 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.

Down Home in other brands

• Spanish Benjamin Moore 1028 Brown Very close ΔE 0.6
• A2191C Crown Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Morsels Nippon Paint NP N 1863D Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Cement Resene Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Coconut Shell Behr PPU5-05 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Dark Toast Valspar 3001-9B Brown Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Chocolate Powder Sherwin-Williams 9082 Beige
• Cobble Brown Sherwin-Williams 6082 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 Down Home warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 13.9 and a value of 6.3 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Benjamin Moore color to Down Home?

Spanish (1028), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Down Home?

≈ 20. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.