RAL Classic Water blue RAL 5021 paint color review

What does the color Water blue RAL 5021 look like in real spaces? Browse through a full Water blue paint color review. Take a look at interior and exterior used Water blue RAL 5021 on living room walls, bedroom and kitchen cabinets. Accent walls, color zoning and trim colors go with RAL Classic Water blue RAL 5021.

RGB color code & HEX value of RAL Classic Water blue RAL 5021

RGB (red, green and blue) additive color model is a system representing the colors used on a digital display screen (TV, PC, laptop, phone or tablet). Red, green and blue can be mixed in various proportions to get any color in the visible spectrum. Based on The Young–Helmholtz theory, also known as the trichromatic theory, RGB color code value is specified with: red, green and blue. Each parameter (red, green, blue) defines the intensity of the color with a value between 0 and 255.

Hex color codes are a hexadecimal way to represent a color in RGB format. They compress RGB values into a six-digit value that uses a combination of alphanumeric characters, including letters and numbers, to identify a color.
A Hex color code is a 6-digit hexadecimal number that represents Red, Green, Blue and can provide 16,777,216 possible colors, which is more colors than the human eye can distinguish.
For example, let’s look at the Hex color code for Alabaster SW 7008 - #123456, where 12 is Red, 34 is Green, and 56 is Blue. Hex values are now an industry standard for HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

LRV of RAL Classic Water blue RAL 5021

RAL Classic Water blue RAL 5021 has an LRV of 15.94%

Light Reflectance Value measures the amount of visible and usable light that reflects from a painted surface.

Simply put, the higher LRV of paint color, the brighter room you will get.

Scale goes from 0% (absolute black, absorbing all light) to 100% (pure white, reflecting 100% of all light).

Water blue with an LRV of 15.94% refers to Medium Dark which means that this color almost reflects very little light.

Is RAL Classic Water blue RAL 5021 green or blue?

Color family: green, blue

Is RAL Classic Water blue RAL 5021 cool or warm?

RAL 5021 Water blue HSL code: 181, 100%, 23%

RAL Classic RAL 5021 Water blue is cool color according to HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) on the color wheel.

Hue - degree on a color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.
Saturation is a percentage value. 0% is a shade of grey, and 100% is the full color.
Lightness is also a percentage value. 0% is black, and 100% is white.