Web Gray

With an LRV of about 13, Web Gray 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.

Web Gray in other brands

• Distant Hills Nerolac 2973 Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Mission Impossible Nippon Paint NP N 2996D Gray Very close ΔE 0.7
• Grafton Grey Vista K-810 Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Stormy Benjamin Moore 1616 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Charcoal Shadow Kelly-Moore KM3815-3 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Polished Pewter Hallman Lindsay historic-polished-pewter Gray Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Special Gray Sherwin-Williams 6277 Gray
• Thunder Gray Sherwin-Williams 7645 Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Web Gray warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -2.4 and a value of -1.3 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Nerolac color to Web Gray?

Distant Hills (2973), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Web Gray?

≈ 13. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.