Mount Etna

With an LRV of about 6, Mount Etna 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.

Mount Etna in other brands

• Lights Out Kelly-Moore KMA79-5 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.3
• Night Shade Behr 740F-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Autumn Shower Asian Paints 7381 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.4
• Witchcraft Johnstone's Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.5
• Midnight Hour Glidden PPG1038-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.7
• Midnight Hour PPG 1038-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.7

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Thunder Gray Sherwin-Williams 7645 Gray
• Black Swan Sherwin-Williams 6279 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 Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Mount Etna warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -3.9 and a value of -3.4 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Mount Etna?

Lights Out (KMA79-5), at ΔE 0.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Mount Etna?

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