Midnight Blue

With an LRV of about 9, Midnight 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.

Midnight Blue in other brands

• Evening Cityscape Kelly-Moore KMA81-5 Gray Very close ΔE 0.8
• Night View Valspar 4007-4C Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Soothing Sapphire PPG 10-09 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• Soothing Sapphire Glidden PPG10-09 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• St Boat Tikkurila Peter's Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• N6091E Crown Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Calligraphy Behr N490-6 Gray
• Club Navy Behr QE-56 Dark 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 Turns dark gray
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Midnight Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -6.0 and a value of -2.0 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Midnight Blue?

Evening Cityscape (KMA81-5), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Midnight Blue?

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