Blue

With an LRV of about 9, 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

• Dark Cobalt Blue Behr PPU15-03 Blue Very close ΔE 0.7
• Night Sky Berger Paints 5A1144 Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Lapis Blue Plascon B6-B1-1 Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Blue Bottom Boat Dulux Australia S38H8 Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Navy Dress KILZ RH210 Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• TVT M356 Tikkurila Blue Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Old Benjamin Moore 811 Blue
• Patriot Benjamin Moore 2064-20 Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -32.0 and a value of 3.0 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Blue?

Dark Cobalt Blue (PPU15-03), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Blue?

≈ 9. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.