Gibraltar

With an LRV of about 14, Gibraltar 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.

Gibraltar in other brands

• Elegant Gray Nerolac 4531 Gray Very close ΔE 0.0
• Lavender Dusk Pratt & Lambert CL021 Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Capitol Grey Berger Paints 8D2613 Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Ocean Benjamin Moore 1630 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• SULK DUNNOCK Nippon Paint NP PRO 0540 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Tamed Texan Dulux Australia SG5B5 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Foggy Day Sherwin-Williams 6235 Gray
• Thunder Gray Sherwin-Williams 7645 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 Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Gibraltar warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -4.8 and a value of -1.1 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Nerolac color to Gibraltar?

Elegant Gray (4531), at ΔE 0.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Gibraltar?

≈ 14. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.