Behr Grand Plum N120-7
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| Code: | N120-7 |
| Name: | Grand Plum |
| Brand: | Behr |
What color is Behr Grand Plum?
Behr Grand Plum N120-7 is a deep, muted red with a soft gray-brown cast that keeps it from reading overly bright or sugary. Its low saturation gives the color a weathered, grounded look, with just enough rosy warmth to prevent it from feeling flat. In warm interior light, Grand Plum can lean more toward a dusky brick-red, while cooler daylight brings out its smoky, near-neutral side. It has enough depth for a dining room, library, powder room, or accent wall, and can also make cabinetry feel substantial without looking black. Pair it with warm ivory, mushroom beige, charcoal, aged brass, walnut, or matte black finishes.
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What are Behr Grand Plum undertones?
Grand Plum is a deep, very muted earthy brown. The HEX sample has a subtle red bias, but its low chroma turns that hue into a neutral-looking color rather than a clear red. Warm bulbs can make it look creamier or more golden, while cool daylight may mute that warmth and pull it closer to beige or greige.
HEX value:
RGB code:
108, 86, 87
Is Behr Grand Plum cool or warm?
warm
cool
With a hue of 357°, this dark red reads warm on the HSL color wheel.
N120-7 Grand Plum HSL code: 357, 11%, 38%
Hue - degree on a color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.
Saturation is expressed as a percentage. At 0%, it appears as a shade of grey, and at 100%, it is in full color.
Lightness is also a percentage value. 0% is black, and 100% is white.
How light temperature affects Grand Plum
Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.
In addition, natural-light temperature depends on its direction:
| Direction of sunlight | Visible temp. | Hue | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | Cool | Bluish | All day |
| East | Warm | Yellow | Before noon |
| West | Warm | Orange-red | After noon |
| South | Warm | Orange-yellow | All day |
Artificial Lighting. When choosing bulbs, pay attention to their color temperature in Kelvins.
Use the slider to see how this dark red shade looks under different lighting:
4000K
Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Behr Grand Plum:
Monochromatic color scheme
This scheme consists of various shades, tints, and tones of a single color. While it offers a perfect combination of hues, without accent décor it may become monotonous.
Lighter shades
N120-7
Grand Plum
Darker shades
N120-7
Grand Plum
Complementary color scheme
This color scheme is a combination of two shades that are opposite each other on the color wheel. The high contrast between these colors creates a vibrant and dynamic visual effect. For the color Grand Plum with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 177, such as Behr Longmeadow and Greenwich Village.
LRV of Grand Plum
Grand Plum has an LRV of 11.05% and refers to Medium Dark which means that this color reflects very little light. Why LRV is important?
Light Reflectance Value measures the amount of visible and usable light that reflects from a painted surface.
Simply put, the higher the LRV of a paint color, the brighter the room you will get.
The scale goes from 0% (absolute black, absorbing all light) to 100% (pure white, reflecting all light).
Act like a pro: When choosing paint with an LRV of 11.05%, pay attention to your bulbs' brightness. Light brightness is measured in lumens. The lower the paint's LRV, the higher lumen level you need. Every square foot of room needs at least 40 lumens. That means for a 200 ft2 living room you'll need about 8000 lumens of light – e.g., eight 1000 lm bulbs.
Color codes
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| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| HEX | #6c5657 |
| RGB Decimal | 108, 86, 87 |
| RGB Percent | 42.35%, 33.73%, 34.12% |
| HSV | Hue: 357° Saturation: 20.37% Value: 42.35% |
| HSL | hsl(357, 11, 38) |
| CMYK | Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 20.37 Yellow: 19.44 Key: 57.65 |
| YIQ | Y: 92.692 I: 12.788 Q: 4.965 |
| XYZ | X: 11.232 Y: 10.532 Z: 10.456 |
| CIE Lab | L:38.781 a:9.24 b:2.865 |
| CIE Luv | L:38.781 u:13.186 v:2.137 |
| Decimal | 7099991 |
| Hunter Lab | 32.453, 4.986, 3.616 |
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