Benjamin Moore Southwest Pottery 048

What color is Benjamin Moore Southwest Pottery?

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What are Benjamin Moore Southwest Pottery undertones?

Is Benjamin Moore Southwest Pottery cool or warm?

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With a hue of 8°, this dark red reads warm on the HSL color wheel.

048 Southwest Pottery HSL code: 8, 27%, 47%

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 Southwest Pottery

Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.

Sunrise

Morning

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In addition, natural-light temperature depends on its direction:

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 Benjamin Moore Southwest Pottery:

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

048
Southwest Pottery

• 2103-50
  Sandblast

  

• 2102-40
  Brown Teepee

  

• 2101-40
  Almond Beige

  

• 2100-40
  Appalachian Spring

  

• 2095-40
  Mudslide

  

Darker shades

048
Southwest Pottery

• 049
  Twilight Dreams

  

• CC-2
  Raphael

  

• CW-270
  Nicolson Red

  

• 2104-30
  Harvest Brown

  

• 2102-30
  Pueblo Brown

  

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 Southwest Pottery with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 188, such as Benjamin Moore Aegean Teal and Blue Lace.

048
Southwest Pottery

• 2136-40
  Aegean Teal

  

• 1625
  Blue Lace

  

• 2131-50
  Nimbus Gray

  

• 1636
  Providence Blue

  

• HC-145
  Van Courtland Blue

  

• 2135-30
  Nocturnal Gray

  

• 1637
  Blue Spruce

  

LRV of Southwest Pottery

Southwest Pottery has an LRV of 16.56% and refers to Medium Dark which means that this color reflects very little light. Why LRV is important?

Color codes

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