Serious Gray

With an LRV of about 23, Serious Gray 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.

Serious Gray in other brands

• Quarry Dust Asian Paints K088 Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• TVT Q838 Tikkurila Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Milestone Behr 760F-5 Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Simone Weil Dulux Australia SG6G4 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Smoking Jacket C2 Paint C2-984 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Elephant Gray Valspar 4006-2A Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Auger Shell Sherwin-Williams 9159 Gray
• Grapy Sherwin-Williams 7629 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 Serious Gray warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -4.7 and a value of -1.1 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Serious Gray?

Quarry Dust (K088), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Serious Gray?

≈ 23. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.