Kaffee

With an LRV of about 9, Kaffee 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.

Kaffee in other brands

• Otter Pratt & Lambert 9-17 Brown Very close ΔE 0.6
• Badger Sett Johnstone's Brown Very close ΔE 1.5
• Hickory Grove Behr ECC-20-3 Brown Very close ΔE 1.7
• Tuscan Olive Asian Paints K283 Brown Very close ΔE 1.7
• Stormy Day Berger Paints 7A2815 Brown Very close ΔE 1.8
• Earthen Pot Dulux Australia SN3D9 Brown Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Caraïbe Sherwin-Williams 9090 Brown
• Van Dyke Brown Sherwin-Williams 7041 Dark 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 Kaffee warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 14.5 and a value of 5.8 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Pratt & Lambert color to Kaffee?

Otter (9-17), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Kaffee?

≈ 9. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.