Blue

With an LRV of about 16, 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

• Deep Charcoal KILZ RM130 Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Desert Night Behr ECC-64-3 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Loveday Dulux Australia SG5C5 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Arctis 40 Caparol 3D Arctis 40 Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• Smoky Tone Plascon B2-E1-3 Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Relaxed Navy Valspar 5001-2B Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Montpelier Benjamin Moore AF-555 Gray
• Nocturnal Benjamin Moore 2135-30 Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as gray
• 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 Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -5.9 and a value of -4.3 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest KILZ color to Blue?

Deep Charcoal (RM130), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Blue?

≈ 16. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.