Blue

With an LRV of about 13, 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. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Blue in other brands

• Pencil Lead Dunn-Edwards DE5922 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.4
• TVT Q411 Tikkurila Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.7
• Dark Night Valspar 4003-4C Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Presumption Dulux Australia S41C6 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Blue Heron Glidden 50BB 13/104 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Mysterious Night Behr S550-6 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.5

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Amethyst Benjamin Moore 1441 Grayish Blue
• Stunning Benjamin Moore 826 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -10.9 and a value of 1.9 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dunn-Edwards color to Blue?

Pencil Lead (DE5922), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Blue?

≈ 13. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.