Searching Blue

With an LRV of about 21, Searching Blue 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.

Searching Blue in other brands

• Lead Cast Behr MQ5-52 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.5
• Lynch Resene Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• P7212F Crown Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Bay View Dunn-Edwards DE5886 Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Prairie Kitchen Blue Glidden 30BB 22/144 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Providence Plascon B5-C1-3 Blue Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Dried Lavender Sherwin-Williams 9072 Grayish Blue
• Luxe Blue Sherwin-Williams 6537 Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Searching Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -16.8 and a value of -0.3 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Behr color to Searching Blue?

Lead Cast (MQ5-52), at ΔE 0.5. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Searching Blue?

≈ 21. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.