Cross-brand match

Blue Monday in PPG

Vista Paint 7294 translated into the PPG line

Vista Paint Blue Monday 7294 on a wall, hex #527896
PPG Stormy Ridge 1159-5 on a wall, hex #507B9A

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.

NEARESTStormy Ridge1159-5
DISTANCEΔE 1.69CIE Lab
LIGHT REFLECTANCE19.0 against 16.0
HEX#507B9Aagainst #527896

Ranked matches in PPG

closest first
PPG colorΔE 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

Blue Monday in other brands

same color, different line

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