Luxe Blue

With an LRV of about 13, Luxe 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.

Luxe Blue in other brands

• Midship Blue Glidden 30BB 14/173 Blue Very close ΔE 0.7
• Convent Blue Asian Paints 9634 Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• Admiral Blue Dunn-Edwards DE5887 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Lazur 130 Caparol 3D Lazur 130 Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Grape Haze Johnstone's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Stained Glass PPG 1165-6 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Searching Blue Sherwin-Williams 6536 Grayish Blue
• Indigo Batik Sherwin-Williams 7602 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Luxe Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -18.5 and a value of 0.2 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Glidden color to Luxe Blue?

Midship Blue (30BB 14/173), at ΔE 0.7. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Luxe Blue?

≈ 13. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.