Bracing Blue

With an LRV of about 25, Bracing 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. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Bracing Blue in other brands

• Stormy Sky Blue Glidden 70BG 25/100 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Pulitzer Blue Valspar 4008-4A Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Blue Canvas Jotun 4248 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Hempel 34930 Hempel Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Sky Tikkurila Pablo's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Pacific 110 Caparol 3D Pacific 110 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Daphne Sherwin-Williams 9151 Grayish Blue
• Distance Sherwin-Williams 6243 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as grayish blue
• Protanopia Reads as grayish blue
• Tritanopia Reads as grayish blue
• 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 Bracing Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -10.5 and a value of -4.0 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Glidden color to Bracing Blue?

Stormy Sky Blue (70BG 25/100), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Bracing Blue?

≈ 25. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.