Quench Blue

With an LRV of about 69, Quench Blue 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.

Quench Blue in other brands

• Across the Bay Dunn-Edwards DE5757 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.5
• Crystal Falls Behr P480-2 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Skyscraper Benjamin Moore 765 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Summer Medley 4 Dulux UK 1187193 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Blue Rhapsody Nerolac 2993 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Point Reyes Kelly-Moore KM332-L Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Sky High Sherwin-Williams 6504 White
• Cay Sherwin-Williams 6772 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Quench Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -8.1 and a value of -12.7 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dunn-Edwards color to Quench Blue?

Across the Bay (DE5757), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Quench Blue?

≈ 69. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.