Red Cent

With an LRV of about 19, Red Cent 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.

Red Cent in other brands

• Earthy Brown Asian Paints 8005 Brown Very close ΔE 0.5
• New Bronze Met. MyPerfectColor MP47934 Brown Very close ΔE 0.8
• Good Earth Nippon Paint NP YO 2415D Brown Very close ΔE 0.8
• Sunbaked Earth Kelly-Moore KM3616-5 Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Rustic Hills Vista K-1073 Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Rusty Gate Behr M200-7 Brown Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Baked Clay Sherwin-Williams 6340 Red
• Rookwood Terra Cotta Sherwin-Williams 2803 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 Red Cent warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 26.5 and a value of 26.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Red Cent?

Earthy Brown (8005), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Red Cent?

≈ 19. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.