Loyal Blue

With an LRV of about 5, Loyal 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.

Loyal Blue in other brands

• Marine Blue Met. MyPerfectColor MP21993 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Teal Blue Resene Dark Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Forest Blues Dulux Australia S34E9 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Adriatic Benjamin Moore CSP-660 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Night Edition Vista K-184 Dark Blue Close ΔE 2.1
• Deep Blue Plascon G 25 Dark Blue Close ΔE 2.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Regatta Sherwin-Williams 6517 Blue
• Black of Night Sherwin-Williams 6993 Dark Gray

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Loyal Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -20.1 and a value of -8.8 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest MyPerfectColor color to Loyal Blue?

Marine Blue Met. (MP21993), at ΔE 0.9. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Loyal Blue?

≈ 5. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.