Evening Shadow

With an LRV of about 60, Evening Shadow reflects a little over half the light that reaches it, so it stays light in a north-facing room without looking stark. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Evening Shadow in other brands

• Winter Moon Asian Paints 8258 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Shadow Tikkurila J496 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Cool Gray Nippon Paint NP N 2992P Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Sacred Spring Vista C-509 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Hush Behr PPU26-16 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Pacific 55 Caparol 3D Pacific 55 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.7

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Rhinestone Sherwin-Williams 7656 Light Gray
• Colonial Revival Gray Sherwin-Williams 2832 Light Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Evening Shadow warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -0.8 and b value of -0.9 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Evening Shadow?

Winter Moon (8258), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Evening Shadow?

≈ 60. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.