Mineral Gray

With an LRV of about 9, Mineral Gray 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.

Mineral Gray in other brands

• Sophisticated Navy Glidden 30BB 10/075 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Ball Gown Behr MQ5-06 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Saphir 10 Caparol 3D Saphir 10 Gray Very close ΔE 1.4
• Hempel 36380 Hempel Gray Very close ΔE 1.6
• Evening Benjamin Moore 2128-30 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.8
• Shadow Black Jotun 4143 Gray Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Mesmerize Sherwin-Williams 6544 Grayish Blue
• Charcoal Blue Sherwin-Williams 2739 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as grayish blue
• Protanopia Reads as gray
• Tritanopia Reads as gray
• 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 Mineral Gray warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -7.7 and a value of 0.5 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Glidden color to Mineral Gray?

Sophisticated Navy (30BB 10/075), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Mineral Gray?

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