Always Blue

PPG Paints

Color Code:1156-3
Hex Code:#A2BACB
RGB:162, 186, 203
LRV (Light Reflectance Value):approx. 47.1
Category:blue
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Always Blue in the light of your own room

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How Always Blue behaves on a wall

Our estimate, worked out from the hex colour, puts the light reflectance value of this PPG Paints shade at about 47.1; PPG Paints's own figure may differ. At an estimated LRV of 47.1 this sits mid-scale — dark enough to hold its own against white trim, light enough not to close a room in. Mid-tones shift the most between daylight and lamplight, so check it at both ends of the day. For trim that reads as a clear edge rather than a smudge, aim about 30 LRV points away in either direction — under LRV 17 or over LRV 77. With 41 points between its strongest and weakest channel it holds a readable blue cast, so it will not flatten into a neutral once it is on four walls. Order by the code, not the name, and put a test patch on the wall before you commit — a screen cannot show you how this shade behaves in your own light.

Always Blue equivalents in other paint brands

The closest color to PPG Paints Always Blue from each brand we carry, measured with CIEDE2000 on the manufacturers' published color values. Below 1 the difference is practically invisible; below 2 you'd only notice it with the chips side by side. Screens and printed chips aren't paint, so compare real samples before you buy. In the Muro app you can put two of them on a photo of your own wall and look at them in your light.

BrandClosest colorΔE 2000
StoStoColor 367600.5 Practically identical
CaparolCC Niagara 140.8 Practically identical
Farrow & BallLulworth Blue 890.8 Practically identical
DuluxAmazon Beat 40.9 Practically identical
TikkurilaV4330.9 Practically identical
JedynkaPD 12141.2 Very close
TitanluxTP-5381.2 Very close
MagnatNiebieski KL291.3 Very close
Dunn-EdwardsAnchors Away DE58141.4 Very close
BrilluxScala 63.09.151.4 Very close
ValsparPalisade Blue 4006-3B1.6 Very close
Benjamin MooreSheer Romance 8371.9 Very close

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