Blue Cruise

With an LRV of about 26, Blue Cruise 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. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Blue Cruise in other brands

• Storm Blue Asian Paints 7367 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Pacific 170 Caparol 3D Pacific 170 Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Hempel 37440 Hempel Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Sea Crystal Dulux Australia S36C4 Blue Very close ΔE 1.6
• French Court Behr PPU14-04 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.8
• Tivoli Little Greene Blue Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Bluebird Feather Sherwin-Williams 9062 Blue
• Inky Blue Sherwin-Williams 9149 Grayish 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 Turns grayish blue
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Blue Cruise warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -16.8 and a value of -8.9 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Blue Cruise?

Storm Blue (7367), at ΔE 1.2. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Blue Cruise?

≈ 26. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.