Suitable Brown

With an LRV of about 11, Suitable Brown 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.

Suitable Brown in other brands

• Winter Oak Behr 720D-7 Brown Very close ΔE 0.6
• Chocolate Lab Glidden PPG1000-7 Brown Very close ΔE 0.6
• North Benjamin Moore 1001 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2
• Wildwood Dulux Australia SN3B9 Brown Very close ΔE 1.3
• Roasted Sepia Valspar 6006-2C Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Introspective Johnstone's Brown Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Brainstorm Bronze Sherwin-Williams 7033 Brown
• Enduring Bronze Sherwin-Williams 7055 Brown

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as olive
• Tritanopia Reads as gray
• 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 Suitable Brown warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 10.1 and a value of 1.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Suitable Brown?

Winter Oak (720D-7), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Suitable Brown?

≈ 11. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.