Rock Bottom

With an LRV of about 7, Rock Bottom 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.

Rock Bottom in other brands

• Gaeta Olive MyPerfectColor MP15718 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Studio Green Farrow & Ball 93 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Moonless Sky Kelly-Moore KM3856-5 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Antimony Asian Paints 8309 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• Black Swan Behr 710F-7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Deep Benjamin Moore 1582 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Cloak Gray Sherwin-Williams 6278 Gray
• Greenblack Sherwin-Williams 6994 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 Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Rock Bottom warm or cool?

Close to neutral. Its LAB a value of -2.3 and b value of 1.2 sit near zero, so it shifts with the light and the colors around it.

What is the closest MyPerfectColor color to Rock Bottom?

Gaeta Olive (MP15718), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Rock Bottom?

≈ 7. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.