Dutch Cocoa

With an LRV of about 18, Dutch Cocoa 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.

Dutch Cocoa in other brands

• Eclectic Plum Dunn-Edwards DE6047 Red Very close ΔE 1.0
• Ruffles Plascon R7-D1-3 Red Very close ΔE 1.6
• Oakwood Brown Glidden PPG1054-6 Red Very close ΔE 1.9
• Oakwood Brown PPG 1054-6 Red Very close ΔE 1.9
• Cigar Puffs Nerolac 4459 Red Very close ΔE 1.9
• Bitter Briar Behr 720B-5 Red Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Cocoa Berry Sherwin-Williams 9078 Red
• Bateau Brown Sherwin-Williams 6033 Red

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Dutch Cocoa warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 7.5 and a value of 10.1 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dunn-Edwards color to Dutch Cocoa?

Eclectic Plum (DE6047), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Dutch Cocoa?

≈ 18. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.