Night Owl

With an LRV of about 13, Night Owl 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.

Night Owl in other brands

• Sable Evening Valspar 5006-2C Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Hockey Puck Kelly-Moore KM708-D Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Wet Day Berger Paints 8A2782 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• City Fog Dulux UK 1977037 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Puur Natuursteen Flexa Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Deepest Valley Green Glidden 30GY 13/045 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Gauntlet Gray Sherwin-Williams 7019 Gray
• Thunder Gray Sherwin-Williams 7645 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 olive
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Night Owl warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -2.0 and b value of 3.1 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest Valspar color to Night Owl?

Sable Evening (5006-2C), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Night Owl?

≈ 13. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.