Honed Soapstone

With an LRV of about 31, Honed Soapstone 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.

Honed Soapstone in other brands

• Dusty Olive Behr PPU8-20 Beige Very close ΔE 0.8
• Gettysburg Benjamin Moore HC-107 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• French Clay Kelly-Moore KM3918-2 Beige Very close ΔE 1.0
• Nightingale Nippon Paint NP N 1836T Beige Very close ΔE 1.1
• Wood Ash C2 Paint C2-923 Beige Very close ΔE 1.2
• Bronze Doro Met. MyPerfectColor MP36581 Beige Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Chatroom Sherwin-Williams 6171 Beige
• Connected Gray Sherwin-Williams 6165 Olive

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Honed Soapstone warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 9.6 and a value of -1.2 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Honed Soapstone?

Dusty Olive (PPU8-20), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Honed Soapstone?

≈ 31. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.