Admiral Blue

With an LRV of about 10, Admiral Blue 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. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Admiral Blue in other brands

• Cobalt Bay Berger Paints 5A1152 Blue Very close ΔE 0.6
• P7103X Crown Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• Carter's Scroll Dulux Australia S39D7 Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Hempel 35890 Hempel Blue Very close ΔE 1.6
• Morning Jewel 1 Dulux UK 1186950 Blue Very close ΔE 1.8
• Newbury Port Dunn-Edwards DE5881 Blue Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Wickford Bay Behr 590D-6 Blue
• Lake View Behr PPF-57 Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns grayish blue
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns grayish blue
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Admiral Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -22.4 and a value of -0.5 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Berger Paints color to Admiral Blue?

Cobalt Bay (5A1152), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Admiral Blue?

≈ 10. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.