Slate Tile

With an LRV of about 15, Slate Tile 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.

Slate Tile in other brands

• Midnight Pearl Kelly-Moore KM4875-3 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Smoky Tone Plascon B2-E1-3 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Deep Iron Creek Glidden 30BG 15/062 Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Deep Charcoal KILZ RM130 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• TVT V492 Tikkurila Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Blue Benjamin Moore 1637 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Blustery Sky Sherwin-Williams 9140 Grayish Blue
• Grays Harbor Sherwin-Williams 6236 Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as gray
• Protanopia Reads as gray
• Tritanopia Reads as grayish green
• 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 Slate Tile warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -5.1 and a value of -3.9 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Slate Tile?

Midnight Pearl (KM4875-3), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Slate Tile?

≈ 15. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.