Hardware

With an LRV of about 23, Hardware 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.

Hardware in other brands

• Charlie Horse C2 Paint C2-906 Olive Very close ΔE 0.4
• Zinc Pratt & Lambert 14-20 Olive Very close ΔE 0.9
• Dark Ash Glidden PPG1025-5 Olive Very close ΔE 1.0
• Dark Ash PPG 1025-5 Olive Very close ΔE 1.0
• Olive Haze Resene Olive Very close ΔE 1.5
• Bs B Tikkurila 23 Olive Very close ΔE 1.6

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Zeus Sherwin-Williams 7744 Beige
• Cocoon Sherwin-Williams 6173 Olive

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Hardware warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 10.3 and a value of 0.0 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest C2 Paint color to Hardware?

Charlie Horse (C2-906), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Hardware?

≈ 23. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.