Hardware

Sherwin-Williams

Color Code:SW 6172
Hex Code:#8B8372
RGB:139, 131, 114
LRV (Light Reflectance Value):approx. 22.9
Category:brown
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Hardware in the light of your own room

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How Hardware behaves on a wall

Our estimate, worked out from the hex colour, puts the light reflectance value of this Sherwin-Williams shade at about 22.9; Sherwin-Williams's own figure may differ. At an estimated LRV of 22.9 this is a dark shade. It absorbs far more light than it gives back, which reads as depth in a bright room and as gloom in a north-facing one. Expect to prime if you are covering something much lighter. For trim that reads as a clear edge rather than a smudge, aim about 30 LRV points away — roughly LRV 53 and up. With 25 points between its strongest and weakest channel it holds a readable brown cast, so it will not flatten into a neutral once it is on four walls. Order by the code, not the name, and put a test patch on the wall before you commit — a screen cannot show you how this shade behaves in your own light.

Hardware equivalents in other paint brands

The closest color to Sherwin-Williams Hardware from each brand we carry, measured with CIEDE2000 on the manufacturers' published color values. Below 1 the difference is practically invisible; below 2 you'd only notice it with the chips side by side. Screens and printed chips aren't paint, so compare real samples before you buy. In the Muro app you can put two of them on a photo of your own wall and look at them in your light.

BrandClosest colorΔE 2000
BehrDry Brown N230-50.7 Practically identical
JedynkaPD 11730.8 Practically identical
PPG PaintsDark Ash 1025-51.0 Practically identical
TollensSchiste vert CRF114-31.3 Very close
ZolpanSchiste vert CRF114-31.3 Very close
TikkurilaTVT 51421.6 Very close
TitanluxNCS S 5010-G90Y1.6 Very close
ŚnieżkaS 5010-y10r S 5010-Y10R1.6 Very close
Benjamin MooreIron Gate 15451.7 Very close
DuluxForgotten Folly1.7 Very close
SikkensSilbergrau Wood (013) 19574051.7 Very close

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