Illusive Green

With an LRV of about 29, Illusive Green 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.

Illusive Green in other brands

• Greenish Pebblestone Jotun 8590 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Smokey Wings Nippon Paint NP N 2029T Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Slippery Shale Kelly-Moore KM3845-2 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Shadowy Johnstone's Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Smoky Gray Dutch VS-9305 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Tin Man C2 Paint C2-970 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Unusual Gray Sherwin-Williams 7059 Light Gray
• Serious Gray Sherwin-Williams 6256 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 Turns olive
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns olive
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Illusive Green warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -2.1 and b value of 3.4 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest Jotun color to Illusive Green?

Greenish Pebblestone (8590), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Illusive Green?

≈ 29. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.