Expressive Plum

With an LRV of about 12, Expressive Plum 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.

Expressive Plum in other brands

• Mauve Mystery Dulux Australia S48A6 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Purple Night Sky Asian Paints K038 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Urban Legend Behr N100-6 Gray Very close ΔE 1.6
• Berry Brown Glidden 50RR 11/049 Gray Very close ΔE 1.8
• Sweet Currant Valspar 1001-7A Gray Very close ΔE 1.9
• Mountain Benjamin Moore 1456 Gray Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Plum Dandy Sherwin-Williams 6284 Red
• Plum Brown Sherwin-Williams 6272 Dark 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 brown
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Expressive Plum warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of -1.5 and a value of 6.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Expressive Plum?

Mauve Mystery (S48A6), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Expressive Plum?

≈ 12. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.