Virtual Taupe

With an LRV of about 20, Virtual Taupe 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.

Virtual Taupe in other brands

• Mud Skipper Dulux Australia S11B6 Brown Very close ΔE 0.4
• Caffeine Behr N210-5 Brown Very close ΔE 0.9
• Woodbridge Vista K-1178 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Thunderbird Glidden PPG1021-5 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Thunderbird PPG 1021-5 Brown Very close ΔE 1.0
• Glacier Sand Pratt & Lambert 11-21 Brown Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Sycamore Tan Sherwin-Williams 2855 Orange
• Superior Bronze Sherwin-Williams 6152 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 Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Virtual Taupe warm or cool?

Warm. Its LAB b value of 11.0 and a value of 3.4 lean toward yellow and red, so it reads warmer next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Virtual Taupe?

Mud Skipper (S11B6), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Virtual Taupe?

≈ 20. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.