Useful Gray

With an LRV of about 59, Useful Gray reflects a little over half the light that reaches it, so it stays light in a north-facing room without looking stark. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Useful Gray in other brands

• Villa Grey Valspar 6005-1B Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Storm's Coming Glidden PPG1008-2 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Storm's Coming PPG 1008-2 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.5
• Toasty Gray Behr N320-2 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• White Duck Dulux Australia S16B1 Beige Very close ΔE 0.9
• Ice Benjamin Moore 973 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Oyster White Sherwin-Williams 7637 Light Gray
• Techno Gray Sherwin-Williams 6170 Beige

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as light gray
• Protanopia Reads as light gray
• Tritanopia Reads as light gray
• Achromatopsia Reads as light gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns orange
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns beige
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Useful Gray warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 7.1 and a value of -0.5 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Valspar color to Useful Gray?

Villa Grey (6005-1B), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Useful Gray?

≈ 59. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.