Superior Blue

With an LRV of about 10, Superior 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.

Superior Blue in other brands

• Brigade PPG 1152-6 Blue Very close ΔE 0.7
• Brigade Glidden PPG1152-6 Blue Very close ΔE 0.7
• Azure Jazz Valspar 4011-6 Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Dress Blues Berger Paints 5A1064 Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Rotterdam Blue MyPerfectColor MP13704 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.7
• Summer Benjamin Moore 777 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Behr

• Shipyard Behr S500-6 Grayish Blue
• Planetarium Behr 560D-7 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Superior Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -15.9 and a value of -6.6 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest PPG color to Superior Blue?

Brigade (1152-6), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Superior Blue?

≈ 10. Behr does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.