Whirlpool

With an LRV of about 29, Whirlpool 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.

Whirlpool in other brands

• Water .05 Colorhouse Water-05 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 0.6
• Whale Of A Time Berger Paints 8T2669 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Symphony Of Blue Johnstone's Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Delta Blue Kelly-Moore 211 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Stray Gray KILZ RE120-01 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Silent Tide Behr PMD-55 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.4

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Meditative Sherwin-Williams 6227 Light Gray
• Blustery Sky Sherwin-Williams 9140 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

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

Under different light

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

Questions

Is Whirlpool warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -6.3 and a value of -6.2 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Colorhouse color to Whirlpool?

Water .05 (Water-05), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Whirlpool?

≈ 29. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.