Behr Crashing Waves S450-4
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- Behr Crashing Waves reviews (23 photos)
- What are Behr Crashing Waves undertones?
- Is Crashing Waves S450-4 cool or warm?
- How light temperature affects on Crashing Waves
- Monochromatic color scheme
- Complementary color scheme
- Color comparison and matching
- LRV of Crashing Waves S450-4
- Color codes
- Color equivalents
| Code: | S450-4 |
| Name: | Crashing Waves |
| Brand: | Behr |
What color is Behr Crashing Waves?
Behr Crashing Waves S450-4 is a muted blue-gray with a lightly weathered, airy look. Its blue character is softened by gray, while a subtle green cast keeps it from reading icy or overly nautical. In bright daylight, the color can appear cleaner and more blue; under warmer lamps, its gray undertone becomes more noticeable. Use Crashing Waves on bedroom, bathroom, or home office walls with crisp white trim, pale oak, linen, and brushed nickel. It also makes a restrained cabinet color alongside warm white counters and natural stone.
Behr Crashing Waves reviews (23 photos)
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What are Behr Crashing Waves undertones?
Crashing Waves is a mid-light, muted teal. The HEX sample leans teal; this describes its measurable digital hue direction, not a hidden paint pigment. Warm bulbs may gray the color down, while cool daylight usually makes its blue or teal direction clearer.
HEX value:
RGB code:
134, 171, 179
Is Behr Crashing Waves cool or warm?
warm
cool
With a hue of 191°, this Blue reads cool based on its HSL hue position.
S450-4 Crashing Waves HSL code: 191, 23%, 61%
Hue - degree on a color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.
Saturation is expressed as a percentage. At 0%, it appears as a shade of grey, and at 100%, it is in full color.
Lightness is also a percentage value. 0% is black, and 100% is white.
How light temperature affects Crashing Waves
Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.
In addition, natural-light temperature depends on its direction:
| Direction of sunlight | Visible temp. | Hue | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | Cool | Bluish | All day |
| East | Warm | Yellow | Before noon |
| West | Warm | Orange-red | After noon |
| South | Warm | Orange-yellow | All day |
Artificial Lighting. When choosing bulbs, pay attention to their color temperature in Kelvins.
Use the slider to see how this Blue shade looks under different lighting:
4000K
Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Behr Crashing Waves:
Monochromatic color scheme
This scheme consists of various shades, tints, and tones of a single color. While it offers a perfect combination of hues, without accent décor it may become monotonous.
Lighter shades
S450-4
Crashing Waves
Darker shades
Complementary color scheme
This color scheme is a combination of two shades that are opposite each other on the color wheel. The high contrast between these colors creates a vibrant and dynamic visual effect. For the color Crashing Waves with a green hue, complementary colors are those with a red hue close to 11, such as Behr Autumn Ashes and Piano Brown.
LRV of Crashing Waves
Crashing Waves has an LRV of 35.72% and refers to Medium colors that reflect a lot of light. Why LRV is important?
Light Reflectance Value measures the amount of visible and usable light that reflects from a painted surface.
Simply put, the higher the LRV of a paint color, the brighter the room you will get.
The scale goes from 0% (absolute black, absorbing all light) to 100% (pure white, reflecting all light).
Act like a pro: When choosing paint with an LRV of 35.72%, pay attention to your bulbs' brightness. Light brightness is measured in lumens. The lower the paint's LRV, the higher lumen level you need. Every square foot of room needs at least 40 lumens. That means for a 200 ft2 living room you'll need about 8000 lumens of light – e.g., eight 1000 lm bulbs.
Color codes
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Not sure what the difference between HEX and RGB is? We break down color models in plain language. Understanding color models
| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| HEX | #86abb3 |
| RGB Decimal | 134, 171, 179 |
| RGB Percent | 52.55%, 67.06%, 70.20% |
| HSV | Hue: 191° Saturation: 25.14% Value: 70.2% |
| HSL | hsl(191, 23, 61) |
| CMYK | Cyan: 25.14 Magenta: 4.47 Yellow: 0.0 Key: 29.8 |
| YIQ | Y: 160.849 I: -24.619 Q: -5.337 |
| XYZ | X: 32.528 Y: 37.447 Z: 48.15 |
| CIE Lab | L:67.611 a:-10.656 b:-8.215 |
| CIE Luv | L:67.611 u:-19.074 v:-10.623 |
| Decimal | 8825779 |
| Hunter Lab | 61.194, -12.208, -3.815 |
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