Turkish Coffee

With an LRV of about 5, Turkish Coffee 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.

Turkish Coffee in other brands

• Tudor Benjamin Moore HC-185 Dark Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Chocolate Souffle Dulux Australia S10B9 Dark Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Hickory Pratt & Lambert 5-17 Dark Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Jeff's Java Vista K-1112 Dark Brown Very close ΔE 1.4
• Raku C2 Paint C2-549 Dark Red Very close ΔE 1.7
• Conker Dulux UK 1915018 Dark Brown Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Chateau Brown Sherwin-Williams 7510 Brown
• Polished Mahogany Sherwin-Williams 2838 Dark Red

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as olive
• Protanopia Reads as dark gray
• Tritanopia Reads as dark red
• Achromatopsia Reads as dark gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Turkish Coffee warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 9.0 and a value of 7.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Benjamin Moore color to Turkish Coffee?

Tudor (HC-185), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Turkish Coffee?

≈ 5. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.