Tempe Star

With an LRV of about 11, Tempe Star 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.

Tempe Star in other brands

• Star Blanket Johnstone's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Stained Benjamin Moore CSP-685 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.5
• Emerald Blue Jotun 5546 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.6
• Mallard Trek Turquoise Glidden 30BG 10/111 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.8
• Observatory Behr PPU13-19 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.9
• Perfect Storm Valspar 5001-6C Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.9

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Refuge Sherwin-Williams 6228 Grayish Blue
• Seaworthy Sherwin-Williams 7620 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 Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Tempe Star warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -7.8 and a value of -7.8 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Johnstone's color to Tempe Star?

Star Blanket (Johnstone's), at ΔE 1.3. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Tempe Star?

≈ 11. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.