Ripe Olive

With an LRV of about 6, Ripe Olive 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.

Ripe Olive in other brands

• Topsoil Benjamin Moore CC-692 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Deep Forest Behr BXC-12 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• Showdown Dulux Australia SG5F9 Dark Green Very close ΔE 1.5
• Midnight Mountain Johnstone's Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.6
• Ficus Tikkurila N378 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.8
• Clover Patch Hallman Lindsay 431 Grayish Green Very close ΔE 2.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Rookwood Dark Green Sherwin-Williams 2816 Grayish Green
• Jasper Sherwin-Williams 6216 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 Turns olive
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns olive
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Ripe Olive warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 6.0 and a value of -4.0 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Benjamin Moore color to Ripe Olive?

Topsoil (CC-692), at ΔE 1.1. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Ripe Olive?

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