Secure Blue

With an LRV of about 22, Secure 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.

Secure Blue in other brands

• Spa Blue Berger Paints 5D2237 Blue Very close ΔE 0.6
• Raging Tide Dunn-Edwards DE5809 Blue Very close ΔE 0.8
• Kuta Surf Dulux Australia S35C4 Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Milano Blue Plascon B2-B1-2 Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Jay Bird Behr S490-5 Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• EMPIRE BLUE Nippon Paint NP PRO 0415 Teal Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Bluebird Feather Sherwin-Williams 9062 Blue
• Turkish Tile Sherwin-Williams 7610 Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Secure Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -18.3 and a value of -11.1 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Berger Paints color to Secure Blue?

Spa Blue (5D2237), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Secure Blue?

≈ 22. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.