Rainy Season
Behr MQ5-27
- HEX
- #879CA3
- RGB
- 135, 156, 163
- LAB
- 63.0, -5.8, -6.1
- LRV
- ≈ 32
- Family
- Grayish Blue, cool
- Nearest RAL
- 7001 Silver Grey
With an LRV of about 32, Rainy Season is a mid tone: it absorbs more light than it reflects, so it reads deeper on a large wall than on the chip. It suits accent walls and well-lit rooms. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.
Rainy Season in other brands
- Tide Tikkurila L491 Light Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
- Symmetry Johnstone's Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
- Sky Dark Asian Paints 9472 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
- Palmer Dulux Australia SG5C3 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
- Water's Benjamin Moore 1635 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
- Whale Of A Time Berger Paints 8T2669 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
- Very close ΔE 0.0
Lighter and darker in Behr
- Ovation Behr MQ5-59 Grayish Blue
- Norwegian Blue Behr N470-5 Gray
- Very close ΔE 0.0
How it looks with color blindness
- Deuteranopia Reads as gray
- Protanopia Reads as light gray
- Tritanopia Reads as grayish green
- Achromatopsia Reads as gray
Under different light
- Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns green
- Neutral, 4000 K Turns gray
- Daylight, 6500 K As listed
Questions
Is Rainy Season warm or cool?
Cool. Its LAB b value of -6.1 and a value of -5.8 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.
What is the closest Tikkurila color to Rainy Season?
Tide (L491), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.
What is the LRV of Rainy Season?
≈ 32. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.