Ethereal Mood

With an LRV of about 38, Ethereal Mood is a mid tone: it absorbs more light than it reflects, so it reads deeper on a large wall than on the chip. It suits accent walls and well-lit rooms. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Ethereal Mood in other brands

• Roadside Behr MQ2-52 Beige Very close ΔE 0.3
• Napa Resene Beige Very close ΔE 0.6
• Linseed Dulux Australia S15B3 Beige Very close ΔE 0.7
• Beach Wood Plascon Y3-D2-1 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Mortar C2 Paint C2-814 Beige Very close ΔE 1.0
• Bristol Beige Vista K-939 Beige Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Analytical Gray Sherwin-Williams 7051 Beige
• Zeus Sherwin-Williams 7744 Beige

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Ethereal Mood warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 10.0 and a value of 0.3 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Ethereal Mood?

Roadside (MQ2-52), at ΔE 0.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Ethereal Mood?

≈ 38. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.