Soulmate

With an LRV of about 20, Soulmate 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.

Soulmate in other brands

• Baby Seal Plascon R1-E1-4 Gray Very close ΔE 0.4
• Choo Choo PPG 1047-6 Gray Very close ΔE 1.4
• Choo Choo Glidden PPG1047-6 Gray Very close ΔE 1.4
• Empress Resene Gray Very close ΔE 1.6
• Rave Raisin Asian Paints 8743 Gray Very close ΔE 1.7
• Simple Plum Valspar 1001-7B Gray Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Autumn Orchid Sherwin-Williams 9157 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 brown
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns red
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Soulmate warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of -0.2 and a value of 6.1 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Plascon color to Soulmate?

Baby Seal (R1-E1-4), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Soulmate?

≈ 20. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.