Needlepoint Navy

With an LRV of about 13, Needlepoint Navy 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.

Needlepoint Navy in other brands

• Ink Grey Asian Paints 8270 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.5
• The Blues Kelly-Moore KM3807-3 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.6
• Silent Night PPG 1153-6 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Silent Night Glidden PPG1153-6 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Rush Hour Behr MQ5-25 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Spellbound Benjamin Moore 1659 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Labradorite Sherwin-Williams 7619 Grayish Blue
• Gale Force Sherwin-Williams 7605 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Needlepoint Navy warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -7.9 and a value of -4.3 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Asian Paints color to Needlepoint Navy?

Ink Grey (8270), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Needlepoint Navy?

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