Potentially Purple

With an LRV of about 62, Potentially Purple reflects a little over half the light that reaches it, so it stays light in a north-facing room without looking stark. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Potentially Purple in other brands

• Berry Cream Plascon P2-B2-2 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.6
• IKEA054 IKEA Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• Vleugje Pinksterbloem Flexa Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Angel Kiss Quarter Dulux Australia S44F1Q Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Marabou Pratt & Lambert 29-4 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Light Mulberry Behr 650C-3 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Elation Sherwin-Williams 6827 Light Gray
• Wisteria Sherwin-Williams 6822 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Potentially Purple warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -9.2 and a value of 5.8 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Plascon color to Potentially Purple?

Berry Cream (P2-B2-2), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Potentially Purple?

≈ 62. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.