Dark Navy

With an LRV of about 7, Dark Navy 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 Navy in other brands

• Sapphire Stone Dulux Australia S40C8 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.5
• Grand Grape Vista K-80 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• TVT M357 Tikkurila Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Dark Navy Kelly-Moore AC45-N Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• China Aster Hallman Lindsay historic-china-aster Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.7
• Luna Pier Dunn-Edwards DE5888 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Mystical Shade Behr 610F-7 Grayish Blue
• Black Smoke Behr PPH-34 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as grayish blue
• Protanopia Reads as grayish blue
• Tritanopia Reads as grayish blue
• Achromatopsia Reads as dark gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns dark gray
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Dark Navy warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -11.8 and a value of 1.1 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Dark Navy?

Sapphire Stone (S40C8), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Dark Navy?

≈ 7. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.