Blue Nile

With an LRV of about 13, Blue Nile 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 Nile in other brands

• Great Blue Green Kelly-Moore AC238-5 Teal Very close ΔE 0.6
• Dream .06 Colorhouse Dream-06 Teal Very close ΔE 0.8
• Velvet Touch 1 Dulux UK 1187263 Teal Very close ΔE 1.1
• Carnival Night Dunn-Edwards DE5755 Teal Very close ΔE 1.1
• Baybridge Plascon G7-B1-1 Teal Very close ΔE 1.2
• Billabong Dulux Australia S32D8 Teal Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Briny Sherwin-Williams 6775 Teal
• Really Teal Sherwin-Williams 6489 Teal

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as grayish blue
• Protanopia Reads as grayish blue
• Tritanopia Reads as teal
• Achromatopsia Reads as 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 Nile warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -14.9 and a value of -21.8 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Kelly-Moore color to Blue Nile?

Great Blue Green (AC238-5), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Blue Nile?

≈ 13. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.