Velvety Chestnut

With an LRV of about 26, Velvety Chestnut 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.

Velvety Chestnut in other brands

• Pink Granite Behr BNC-11 Red Very close ΔE 0.8
• Earth Bound Kelly-Moore KM4502-3 Red Very close ΔE 0.9
• Beauty Sleep Plascon O2-D1-4 Orange Very close ΔE 1.0
• Navajo Horizon Valspar 2003-9C Orange Very close ΔE 1.0
• Dusty Rose Jotun 20055 Red Very close ΔE 1.0
• Magic Malt Dulux Australia S07C5 Red Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Emerging Taupe Sherwin-Williams 6045 Beige
• Swing Brown Sherwin-Williams 6046 Brown

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 Turns brown
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns orange
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Velvety Chestnut warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 9.2 and a value of 8.6 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Velvety Chestnut?

Pink Granite (BNC-11), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Velvety Chestnut?

≈ 26. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.