Elephant Ear

With an LRV of about 28, Elephant Ear 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.

Elephant Ear in other brands

• Grayjay MyPerfectColor MP14176 Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Eiffel Tower Glidden PPG1022-5 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Eiffel Tower PPG 1022-5 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• TVT S486 Tikkurila Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• English Castle Asian Paints 8760 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Darwin C2 Paint C2-810 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Functional Gray Sherwin-Williams 7024 Light Gray
• Warm Stone Sherwin-Williams 7032 Brown

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 orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns orange
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Elephant Ear warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 6.5 and a value of 1.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest MyPerfectColor color to Elephant Ear?

Grayjay (MP14176), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Elephant Ear?

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