Midnight

With an LRV of about 10, Midnight 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.

Midnight in other brands

• Dark Indigo Jotun 4623 Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Mythic Benjamin Moore CSP-510 Gray Very close ΔE 1.4
• Lavendel 40 Caparol 3D Lavendel 40 Gray Very close ΔE 1.9
• TVT V502 Tikkurila Gray Very close ΔE 1.9
• Legacy Behr UL250-22 Grayish Blue Close ΔE 2.0
• Wonder Wine Dulux Australia S45A6 Gray Close ΔE 2.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Thunderous Sherwin-Williams 6201 Gray
• Olympic Range Sherwin-Williams 7750 Dark 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 brown
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Midnight warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -4.6 and a value of 3.5 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Jotun color to Midnight?

Dark Indigo (4623), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Midnight?

≈ 10. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.