Dress Blues

With an LRV of about 5, Dress Blues 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.

Dress Blues in other brands

• Cordon Bleu C2 Paint C2-774 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 0.7
• Antarctic Blue Dulux Australia S38F9 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• DEEP SEA Nippon Paint NP PRO 0573 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Innsbruck Blue MyPerfectColor MP4979 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Sea Captain Johnstone's Grayish Blue Close ΔE 2.0
• Sapphire Salute Dulux UK 1915150 Blue Close ΔE 2.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Indigo Batik Sherwin-Williams 7602 Grayish Blue
• Anchors Aweigh Sherwin-Williams 9179 Dark Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns grayish blue
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Dress Blues warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -20.0 and a value of 0.1 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest C2 Paint color to Dress Blues?

Cordon Bleu (C2-774), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Dress Blues?

≈ 5. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.