Blue

With an LRV of about 7, 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

• Pitch Cobalt Valspar 5010-2 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.6
• Club Navy Behr QE-56 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Sea Serpent Sherwin-Williams 7615 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.0
• Deepest Sea Dunn-Edwards DE5825 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Baffin Island Night Kelly-Moore KM3808-5 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.1
• Grid Dulux Australia SG6D7 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Deep Benjamin Moore CSP-625 Gray
• Polo Benjamin Moore 2062-10 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as dark gray
• Protanopia Reads as dark gray
• Tritanopia Reads as dark gray
• Achromatopsia Reads as dark gray

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -6.8 and a value of -2.1 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Valspar color to Blue?

Pitch Cobalt (5010-2), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Blue?

≈ 7. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.