Vista Paint 7294 translated into the PPG line
The closest PPG paint to Vista Paint Blue Monday (7294) is Stormy Ridge 1159-5, a delta-E of 1.69 away — close enough to swap without anyone noticing, though a large sample in daylight will show the difference.
Stormy Ridge is 3 LRV points lighter, so the room will read slightly brighter. Undertone reads as blue against blue, at chroma 22.1 and 21.0.
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.
| PPG color | ΔE | LRV | Undertone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stormy Ridge1159-5 | 1.69 | 19.0 | blue | Compare |
| Blue Beads1160-5 | 3.14 | 21.0 | blue | Compare |
| Smoke Blue1156-5 | 3.59 | 18.0 | blue | Compare |
| Cosmic Dust1157-6 | 6.85 | 17.0 | blue | Compare |
| Canyon Blue1155-6 | 7.1 | 17.0 | blue | Compare |
| Blue Cloud1164-6 | 7.91 | 17.0 | blue | Compare |