Gray Area

With an LRV of about 39, Gray Area is a mid tone: it absorbs more light than it reflects, so it reads deeper on a large wall than on the chip. It suits accent walls and well-lit rooms. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Gray Area in other brands

• Beach Wood Plascon Y3-D2-1 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Greige Kelly-Moore KM5767-2 Beige Very close ΔE 0.5
• Smoked Tan Behr HDC-NT-14 Beige Very close ΔE 0.7
• Hempel 24552 Hempel Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Napa Resene Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Linseed Dulux Australia S15B3 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Analytical Gray Sherwin-Williams 7051 Beige
• Felted Wool Sherwin-Williams 9171 Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as beige
• Protanopia Reads as beige
• Tritanopia Reads as light gray
• Achromatopsia Reads as light gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Gray Area warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 9.4 and a value of 0.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Plascon color to Gray Area?

Beach Wood (Y3-D2-1), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Gray Area?

≈ 39. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.