Powder Blue

A mid-weight teal undertone. Powder Blue is Sherwin-Williams's SW 2863.

Light reflectance measures 34.8, which is enough to keep a room bright without bouncing light around. Chroma 10.7 sits in a comfortable middle: present enough to notice, restrained enough to live with.

Works as a whole-room color in spaces that are lived in rather than passed through, where its depth has time to register. This is a color worth testing in the specific room it is going in - cool colors shift more than warm ones do between north and south walls. For a secondary wall, PPG Coronation gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 49.2 LRV points apart).

This color and reds and brick tones don't get along in the same room - they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, so pairing them tends to feel like tension rather than contrast.

The lighter the trim beside this, the more it will seem to glow - a side effect of the light-reflectance gap rather than anything special about the trim color. If the room needs more than one wall color, keep the steps far apart: this color, then something clearly lighter for a second surface, then a bright white above. Two similar tones just look like a mismatch; three distinct ones read as a plan (about 34.8 to 60 to 85 in LRV terms).

For anyone tied to a different brand, Benjamin Moore Dusty Cornflower (CSP-605) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 1.04. Only 1 other-brand color land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual. This color reads consistently across most finishes, so the choice can come down to durability needs rather than how it changes the color.

It is lighter than 45 percent of the Sherwin-Williams range. Sherwin-Williams lists it in the 2000 series, alongside 63 other colors.