Pale Frost
DE5805 · #CFE5F0 · LRV 70 — cool blue-green tone, light — bounces daylight without going clinical.
- 1Resolute Blue40
- 2Honolulu Blue62
- 3Pale Frost70
- 4Pacific Panorama76
- 5Icy Bay83
What Color Is Pale Frost, Really?
Pale Frost reads as a cool blue-green tone — light — bounces daylight without going clinical. The notes below cover how Dunn-Edwards DE5805 behaves in different light and the closest matches at competing US brands.
Best Rooms and Uses for Pale Frost
Pale Frost is an easy whole-room color for living spaces and bedrooms, and light enough to carry onto trim or a ceiling if you want a soft, seamless look. Blues calm a room, which makes them popular in bedrooms, bathrooms and home offices.
How Lighting Changes Pale Frost
At LRV 70, Pale Frost is a light color that bounces daylight around a room without tipping into stark white. Its teal undertone is the part to watch: it gets picked up by whatever sits next to it, so test it against your trim, floor and the room's main light before committing. It holds its undertone in most exposures, which is what makes light shades like this so forgiving room to room.
Most complaints about Pale Frost are a light mismatch. Upload a photo of your actual room and see it on your walls — then ask for the same wall in north light or evening lamps before you buy a single sample.
Need It From Another Brand?
Any paint counter can custom-tint Dunn-Edwards DE5805 directly. If you would rather stay in one brand's own deck, these are the closest stock matches, measured as ΔE2000. Under 2 is a difference you will not see on the wall.
| Brand | Closest color | ΔE | LRV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwin-Williams | Bravo BlueSW 6784 · Sherwin-Williams | 4.1 | 77 | Color page → |
| Behr | Soft CloudM520-1A · Behr | 1.0 | 74 | Color page → |
| Benjamin Moore | Caribbean Mist2061-70 · Benjamin Moore | 1.6 | 76 | Color page → |
| Valspar | Cape Cod8002-44A · Valspar | 0.9 | 74 | Color page → |
| PPG / Glidden | Diamond BluePPG1237-2 · PPG / Glidden | 0.9 | 75 | Color page → |
| Glidden | Arctic Blue50BG 76/090 · Glidden | 0.7 | 76 | Color page → |
Similar Dunn-Edwards Colors
The nearest shades to Pale Frost within Dunn-Edwards's own range, ranked by perceptual color distance — useful when you want the same look a touch lighter, darker, or warmer.
WCAG 2.1: AA is 4.5 : 1 for normal text, 3 : 1 for large text, AAA is 7 : 1.
Coordinated palette
Generated by hue-rotating #CFE5F0 in HSL space. Pair Pale Frost with one accent and one neutral — the swatches below are starting points, not final picks.
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