Refuge

With an LRV of about 19, Refuge 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.

Refuge in other brands

• Love Pat Dulux Australia SG5D5 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• Balor Jotun 5269 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Etruria Little Greene Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Mineral Spring Johnstone's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• M0181R Crown Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Blue Eyed Sailor Plascon B2-D1-3 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Mountain Stream Sherwin-Williams 7612 Grayish Blue
• Tempe Star Sherwin-Williams 6229 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 grayish green
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns grayish green
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Refuge warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -7.2 and a value of -8.6 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Refuge?

Love Pat (SG5D5), at ΔE 0.8. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Refuge?

≈ 19. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.