Charcoal Blue

With an LRV of about 19, Charcoal 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.

Charcoal Blue in other brands

• Confederate Pratt & Lambert 27-21 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• French Grey Glidden 70BG 19/071 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Gray Hood Nippon Paint NP N 3071D Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• In A Flash Nerolac 5006 Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Magnet Dapple Valspar 4007-4A Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Pacific 45 Caparol 3D Pacific 45 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Overcast Behr PPU26-21 Gray
• Calligraphy Behr N490-6 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 Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Charcoal Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -6.4 and a value of -2.4 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Pratt & Lambert color to Charcoal Blue?

Confederate (27-21), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Charcoal Blue?

≈ 19. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.