Felted Wool

With an LRV of about 28, Felted Wool 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.

Felted Wool in other brands

• Grey By Me Johnstone's Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Undercover Nippon Paint NP N 3411T Olive Very close ΔE 0.9
• Utility Wear Vista K-947 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Gray Squirrel Behr N320-5 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Stone Castle Greige Glidden 50YY 28/071 Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Heirloom Brooch KILZ TB-18 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Fawn Brindle Sherwin-Williams 7640 Light Gray
• Adaptive Shade Sherwin-Williams 7053 Olive

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as beige
• Protanopia Reads as olive
• 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 Felted Wool warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 7.8 and a value of 0.3 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Johnstone's color to Felted Wool?

Grey By Me (Johnstone's), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Felted Wool?

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