Charcoal Blue

With an LRV of about 6, Charcoal 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.

Charcoal Blue in other brands

• Deep Storm Dulux Australia S40A8 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 0.9
• Saphir 5 Caparol 3D Saphir 5 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.2
• Sapphire Splendour Dulux UK 1998086 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.3
• Midnight Sky Kelly-Moore KMA83-5 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Black Flame Johnstone's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Stiletto Behr T11-2 Dark Gray Very close ΔE 1.5

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Mineral Gray Sherwin-Williams 2740 Gray
• Anchors Aweigh Sherwin-Williams 9179 Dark Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Charcoal Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -8.2 and a value of 0.2 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Charcoal Blue?

Deep Storm (S40A8), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Charcoal Blue?

≈ 6. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.