Gale Force

With an LRV of about 6, Gale Force 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.

Gale Force in other brands

• Night Moss Plascon B2-E1-1 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.7
• Starless Night Asian Paints K099 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Midsummer Gale Pratt & Lambert 26-17 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Cavalry Johnstone's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Gaffel Blue Berger Paints 4A2807 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Dark Slate Resene Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Needlepoint Navy Sherwin-Williams 32 Grayish Blue
• Dark Night Sherwin-Williams 6237 Dark Blue

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as grayish blue
• Protanopia Reads as dark gray
• Tritanopia Reads as dark blue
• Achromatopsia Reads as dark gray

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Gale Force warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -7.5 and a value of -3.9 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Plascon color to Gale Force?

Night Moss (B2-E1-1), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Gale Force?

≈ 6. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.