Mulberry Silk

With an LRV of about 20, Mulberry Silk 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.

Mulberry Silk in other brands

• Chocolate Delight Behr N160-5 Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Buffalo Soldier Kelly-Moore KM4503-3 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Old Leather Book Glidden 50YR 20/116 Brown Very close ΔE 1.5
• Roadhouse Tavern Valspar 2002-9B Brown Very close ΔE 1.5
• Emerging Leaf Vista C-134 Brown Very close ΔE 1.6
• Soft Cocoa Dulux Australia S07C6 Brown Very close ΔE 1.6

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Hushed Auburn Sherwin-Williams 9080 Red
• Hot Cocoa Sherwin-Williams 6047 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 Mulberry Silk warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 9.9 and a value of 10.1 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Mulberry Silk?

Chocolate Delight (N160-5), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Mulberry Silk?

≈ 20. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.