Mocha

With an LRV of about 21, Mocha 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.

Mocha in other brands

• Organic Red Jotun 20120 Brown Very close ΔE 0.8
• Tattered Teddy Johnstone's Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• True Walnut Behr BXC-73 Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Fox Benjamin Moore 1235 Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Day Dreamer Plascon O3-D1-3 Brown Very close ΔE 1.5
• Peppered Pecan PPG 1074-5 Brown Very close ΔE 1.7

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Redend Point Sherwin-Williams 9081 Beige
• Quartersawn Oak Sherwin-Williams 2836 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 Mocha warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 12.9 and a value of 8.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Jotun color to Mocha?

Organic Red (20120), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Mocha?

≈ 21. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.