Loch Blue

With an LRV of about 16, Loch 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.

Loch Blue in other brands

• Adventure Glidden PPG1151-6 Teal Very close ΔE 0.7
• Adventure PPG 1151-6 Teal Very close ΔE 0.7
• Avalon Benjamin Moore CSP-645 Teal Very close ΔE 1.4
• Bengal Blue Dulux Australia S34B5 Teal Very close ΔE 1.6
• TVT L364 Tikkurila Teal Very close ΔE 1.8
• English River Dunn-Edwards DE5789 Teal Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Georgian Revival Blue Sherwin-Williams 7609 Turquoise
• Georgian Bay Sherwin-Williams 6509 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 Close to listed
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Loch Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -17.5 and a value of -15.7 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Glidden color to Loch Blue?

Adventure (PPG1151-6), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Loch Blue?

≈ 16. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.