Smoky Blue

With an LRV of about 15, Smoky 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.

Smoky Blue in other brands

• Freedom Found Johnstone's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.4
• Rolling Sea Kelly-Moore KM5807-3 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Steel Symphony 1 Dulux UK 1187168 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Distance Behr 540F-6 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.8
• TVT Q459 Tikkurila Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.8
• Blue Insignia Dulux Australia S36A5 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.8

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Blustery Sky Sherwin-Williams 9140 Grayish Blue
• Bunglehouse Blue Sherwin-Williams 48 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 gray
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns gray
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Smoky Blue warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -8.7 and a value of -5.0 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Johnstone's color to Smoky Blue?

Freedom Found (Johnstone's), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Smoky Blue?

≈ 15. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.