Purple

With an LRV of about 22, Purple 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.

Purple in other brands

• Dusky Grape Kelly-Moore KM5658-3 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.6
• Desolate Plascon P2-D1-4 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Nightcap C2 Paint C2-779 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Soft Charcoal Dunn-Edwards DE5935 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Blue Eyed Mary MyPerfectColor MP7292 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.8
• Soft Greyed Heather Glidden 10RB 24/081 Grayish Blue Close ΔE 2.2

Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore

• Faded Benjamin Moore CSP-455 Grayish Blue
• Amethyst Benjamin Moore 1441 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Purple warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -9.8 and a value of 5.1 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Purple?

Dusky Grape (KM5658-3), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Purple?

≈ 22. Benjamin Moore does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.