Spicy Hue

With an LRV of about 12, Spicy Hue 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.

Spicy Hue in other brands

• Ginger Biscuit Plascon O1-C1-1 Brown Very close ΔE 0.8
• Clay Tile Roof Berger Paints 1A0544 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Jungle Ginger 1 Dulux UK 1187540 Brown Very close ΔE 1.1
• Brick Dust Pratt & Lambert 6-19 Brown Very close ΔE 1.3
• Truffle Trouble Vista K-1072 Brown Very close ΔE 1.5
• Cinnamon Benjamin Moore 2174-20 Brown Very close ΔE 1.7

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Pennywise Sherwin-Williams 6349 Brown
• Fired Brick Sherwin-Williams 6335 Red

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as olive
• 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 Spicy Hue warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 28.0 and a value of 30.7 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Plascon color to Spicy Hue?

Ginger Biscuit (O1-C1-1), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Spicy Hue?

≈ 12. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.