Cross-brand match

Alaskan Skies in Valspar

Dunn-Edwards DE5876 translated into the Valspar line

Dunn-Edwards Alaskan Skies DE5876 on a wall, hex #CDDCED
Valspar Serenity 4005-7B on a wall, hex #C9D8EA

The closest Valspar paint to Dunn-Edwards Alaskan Skies (DE5876) is Serenity 4005-7B, a delta-E of 1.5 away — close enough to swap without anyone noticing, though a large sample in daylight will show the difference.

Serenity is 3.3 LRV points darker, so the room will read slightly deeper. Undertone reads as blue undertone against blue undertone, at chroma 10.6 and 10.2.

Codes are not transferable between manufacturers and no brand publishes a conversion table, so every figure here is measured from the published hex values rather than taken from a chart.

NEARESTSerenity4005-7B
DISTANCEΔE 1.5CIE Lab
LIGHT REFLECTANCE67.0 against 70.3
HEX#C9D8EAagainst #CDDCED

Ranked matches in Valspar

closest first
Valspar colorΔE LRV Undertone
Serenity4005-7B 1.5 67.0 blue undertone Compare
Blue Mist4006-9A 3.96 74.0 blue undertone Compare
Super Nova4004-9A 4.57 73.0 blue undertone Compare
Blue Raindrop4005-5A 4.58 65.0 blue undertone Compare
Dewdrop4006-7A 4.7 76.0 blue undertone Compare
Air Kiss4007-7A 5.27 72.0 blue undertone Compare

Alaskan Skies in other brands

same color, different line

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