Blue

With an LRV of about 23, 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

• Storm Blue Sky Vista K-154 Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Seal Pup Dunn-Edwards DE5816 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Hoki Resene Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Stone Cold Plascon B3-C1-3 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Alice Blue Jotun 4241 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Eiger C2 Paint C2-747 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.5

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Soft Benjamin Moore 809 Blue
• Bedford Benjamin Moore 1679 Blue

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as blue
• Protanopia Reads as grayish blue
• Tritanopia Reads as turquoise
• 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 -16.8 and a value of -6.3 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Vista color to Blue?

Storm Blue Sky (K-154), at ΔE 1.2. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Blue?

≈ 23. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.