Fairfax Brown

With an LRV of about 7, Fairfax Brown 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.

Fairfax Brown in other brands

• Fudge Glidden PPG1073-7 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Fudge PPG 1073-7 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Bigfoot Johnstone's Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Northern Territory Dunn-Edwards DEA158 Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Log Cabin Kelly-Moore KMA76-5 Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Melted Truffle Berger Paints 8A1752 Brown Very close ΔE 1.5

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Brevity Brown Sherwin-Williams 6068 Brown
• Turkish Coffee Sherwin-Williams 6076 Dark Brown

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Fairfax Brown warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 11.8 and a value of 9.8 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Glidden color to Fairfax Brown?

Fudge (PPG1073-7), at ΔE 1.1. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Fairfax Brown?

≈ 7. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.