Dark Cobalt Blue

With an LRV of about 9, Dark Cobalt 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.

Dark Cobalt Blue in other brands

• Blue Benjamin Moore 798 Blue Very close ΔE 0.7
• Lapis Blue Plascon B6-B1-1 Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• Marina Blue MyPerfectColor MP29320 Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Blue Mercury Nippon Paint NP AC 2099A Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Regal Destiny Dulux Australia S40G8 Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Night Sky Berger Paints 5A1144 Blue Very close ΔE 1.5

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Splendor And Pride Behr MQ5-47 Blue
• Sailboat Behr S-H-590 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 Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Dark Cobalt Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -32.3 and a value of 3.9 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Benjamin Moore color to Dark Cobalt Blue?

Blue (798), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Dark Cobalt Blue?

≈ 9. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.