Smokey Blue

With an LRV of about 19, Smokey 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.

Smokey Blue in other brands

• Labradorite Sherwin-Williams 7619 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.5
• Sorcerer's Spell PPG 10-02 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Sorcerer's Spell Glidden PPG10-02 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Blue Eyed Sailor Plascon B2-D1-3 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Turning Skies Johnstone's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Target Tikkurila Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Shaker Blue Behr QE-54 Grayish Blue
• Distance Behr 540F-6 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns grayish green
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns gray
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Smokey Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -7.7 and a value of -6.2 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Sherwin-Williams color to Smokey Blue?

Labradorite (7619), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Smokey Blue?

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