Major Blue

With an LRV of about 29, Major 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.

Major Blue in other brands

• Cool Blue Nerolac 4299 Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Charybdis Vista C-660 Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Sticky Note Blue Glidden 50BG 33/360 Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Yosemite Benjamin Moore 2059-40 Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Yucatan Behr P490-5 Turquoise Very close ΔE 1.3
• Out at Sea Nippon Paint NP BGG 1569D Blue Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Flyway Sherwin-Williams 6794 Blue
• Blue Mosque Sherwin-Williams 6789 Teal

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns teal
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns turquoise
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Major Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -28.6 and a value of -18.7 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Nerolac color to Major Blue?

Cool Blue (4299), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Major Blue?

≈ 29. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.