Iron Ore

With an LRV of about 6, Iron Ore 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.

Iron Ore in other brands

• Balsamic Reduction Kelly-Moore KM4904-5 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.0
• Black Suede Behr S-H-790 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Subway Hallman Lindsay 536 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• New York Square Plascon GR-N02 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Blindfold Nippon Paint NP AC 3458A Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Raven Song Asian Paints 8253 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Thunder Gray Sherwin-Williams 7645 Gray
• Black Magic Sherwin-Williams 6991 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Iron Ore warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -0.4 and b value of 1.2 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Iron Ore?

Balsamic Reduction (KM4904-5), at ΔE 0.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Iron Ore?

≈ 6. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.