Hyper Blue

With an LRV of about 10, Hyper 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.

Hyper Blue in other brands

• Rave Regatta Glidden PPG1239-7 Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Rave Regatta PPG 1239-7 Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Goya Kelly-Moore AC49-B Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Glacier Bay Hallman Lindsay historic-glacier-bay Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Glacier Bay Vista C-1371 Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• TVT M358 Tikkurila Blue Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Blue Chip Sherwin-Williams 6959 Blue
• Blueblood Sherwin-Williams 6966 Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Hyper Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -37.1 and a value of -1.7 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Glidden color to Hyper Blue?

Rave Regatta (PPG1239-7), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Hyper Blue?

≈ 10. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.