Blue

With an LRV of about 71, Blue reflects most of the light that reaches it. It keeps a north-facing or dim room bright, and in strong sun it can look whiter than the chip. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Blue in other brands

• Winter Escape Dunn-Edwards DE5750 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Sky Cloud Dulux Australia S30G1 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Blue Rhapsody Nerolac 2993 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Blue Gin Berger Paints 5T2224 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Fantasy Flight Kelly-Moore KM3195-1 Turquoise Very close ΔE 1.3
• Crystal Falls Behr P480-2 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Innocence Benjamin Moore 2055-70 Grayish Blue
• Sea Benjamin Moore 751 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -8.4 and a value of -15.2 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dunn-Edwards color to Blue?

Winter Escape (DE5750), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Blue?

≈ 71. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.