Spalding Gray

With an LRV of about 22, Spalding 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.

Spalding Gray in other brands

• Squirrel Resene Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Wild Truffle Behr HDC-NT-27B Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Paddington Grey Plascon O4-E1-4 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Muddy Creek Kelly-Moore KM702-D Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Siena 10 Caparol 3D Siena 10 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Cottonwood Jotun 2500 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Chatura Gray Sherwin-Williams 9169 Beige
• Garret Gray Sherwin-Williams 6075 Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as gray
• Tritanopia Reads as red
• 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 Spalding Gray warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 7.4 and a value of 3.6 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Resene color to Spalding Gray?

Squirrel (Resene), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Spalding Gray?

≈ 22. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.