Honest Blue

With an LRV of about 55, Honest Blue reflects a little over half the light that reaches it, so it stays light in a north-facing room without looking stark. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Honest Blue in other brands

• Apprentice C2 Paint C2-754 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.5
• Opal Waters Behr MQ5-50 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.5
• Twin Flower Nerolac 2424 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Quintessential Blue Dulux UK 1915137 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Cloudy Day Kelly-Moore KM4991-1 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Pacific 115 Caparol 3D Pacific 115 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Rhythmic Blue Sherwin-Williams 6806 Light Gray
• Faded Flaxflower Sherwin-Williams 9146 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Honest Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -8.4 and a value of -4.6 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest C2 Paint color to Honest Blue?

Apprentice (C2-754), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Honest Blue?

≈ 55. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.