Waterloo

With an LRV of about 13, Waterloo 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.

Waterloo in other brands

• Silent Night PPG 1153-6 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.4
• Silent Night Glidden PPG1153-6 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.4
• Rush Hour Behr MQ5-25 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.6
• TVT Q447 Tikkurila Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.6
• Northern Star Pratt & Lambert 26-19 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Hatteras Grey Johnstone's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Labradorite Sherwin-Williams 7619 Grayish Blue
• Marea Baja Sherwin-Williams 9185 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 Waterloo warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -8.2 and a value of -5.3 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest PPG color to Waterloo?

Silent Night (1153-6), at ΔE 0.4. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Waterloo?

≈ 13. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.