Endless Sea

With an LRV of about 9, Endless Sea 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.

Endless Sea in other brands

• Stormy Night Asian Paints 9664 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• Summer Benjamin Moore 777 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Summer Night Dunn-Edwards DE5811 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Ocean Trapeze Dulux Australia S35C7 Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Deep River Berger Paints 5A1112 Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Water Chi Kelly-Moore KM5016-5 Blue Very close ΔE 1.5

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Santorini Blue Sherwin-Williams 7607 Blue
• Loyal Blue Sherwin-Williams 6510 Dark Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Endless Sea warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -16.7 and a value of -6.7 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Endless Sea?

Stormy Night (9664), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Endless Sea?

≈ 9. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.