Salty Dog

With an LRV of about 5, Salty Dog 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.

Salty Dog in other brands

• Integrity Dulux Australia S36D9 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.3
• Marine Benjamin Moore 2059-10 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Blu 25 Caparol 3D Blu 25 Dark Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Sea Captain Johnstone's Grayish Blue Close ΔE 2.2
• Royal Navy Little Greene Grayish Blue Close ΔE 2.4
• DEEP SEA Nippon Paint NP PRO 0573 Dark Blue Close ΔE 2.7

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Indigo Batik Sherwin-Williams 7602 Grayish Blue
• Anchors Aweigh Sherwin-Williams 9179 Dark Blue

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as dark blue
• Protanopia Reads as grayish blue
• Tritanopia Reads as teal
• Achromatopsia Reads as dark gray

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Salty Dog warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -17.7 and a value of -2.8 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dulux Australia color to Salty Dog?

Integrity (S36D9), at ΔE 0.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Salty Dog?

≈ 5. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.