Indigo

With an LRV of about 7, Indigo 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.

Indigo in other brands

• Inky Sea Vista K-1244 Blue Very close ΔE 0.5
• Blue Tang PPG 10-32 Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• Blue Tang Glidden PPG1160-7 Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• Saphir 65 Caparol 3D Saphir 65 Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Sweet Thing Nerolac 2344 Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Downpour Benjamin Moore 2063-20 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Luxe Blue Sherwin-Williams 6537 Blue
• Salty Dog Sherwin-Williams 9177 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Indigo warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -25.6 and a value of 0.6 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Vista color to Indigo?

Inky Sea (K-1244), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Indigo?

≈ 7. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.