Hot Cocoa

With an LRV of about 14, Hot Cocoa 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.

Hot Cocoa in other brands

• Midnight Cafe Berger Paints 8D2555 Brown Very close ΔE 0.6
• Bitter Chocolate 3 Dulux UK 1186484 Brown Very close ΔE 0.8
• Amazon Mist Hallman Lindsay 136 Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Secret Journal Behr MQ1-57 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Mocha Java Kelly-Moore KM4111-3 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Nouveau Bronze Met. MyPerfectColor MP20162 Brown Very close ΔE 1.6

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Swing Brown Sherwin-Williams 6046 Brown
• Brevity Brown Sherwin-Williams 6068 Brown

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as olive
• Tritanopia Reads as red
• 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 Hot Cocoa warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 10.9 and a value of 10.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Berger Paints color to Hot Cocoa?

Midnight Cafe (8D2555), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Hot Cocoa?

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