Downing Slate

With an LRV of about 21, Downing Slate 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.

Downing Slate in other brands

• Mercury Storm Dulux Australia SN4F6 Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• QUAILS LOVER Nippon Paint NP PRO 0539 Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Arctis 10 Caparol 3D Arctis 10 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Rolling Stone Resene Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• Wolf Benjamin Moore 2127-40 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Deep Shale Behr PPF-38 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Coquina Sherwin-Williams 9158 Gray
• Wall Street Sherwin-Williams 7665 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 olive
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Downing Slate warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -4.8 and a value of -1.5 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Downing Slate?

Mercury Storm (SN4F6), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Downing Slate?

≈ 21. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.