Salted Lavender
242-2DB · #B3BBCF · LRV 50 — cool blue tone, light — bounces daylight without going clinical.
- 1Wolf Gray21
- 2Resolute Blue40
- 3Salted Lavender50
- 4Honolulu Blue62
- 5After Rain68
What Color Is Salted Lavender, Really?
Salted Lavender reads as a cool blue tone — light — bounces daylight without going clinical. The notes below cover how Dutch Boy 242-2DB behaves in different light and the closest matches at competing US brands.
Best Rooms and Uses for Salted Lavender
Salted Lavender 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 Salted Lavender
At LRV 50, Salted Lavender is a light color that bounces daylight around a room without tipping into stark white. Its blue 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 Salted Lavender 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 Dutch Boy 242-2DB 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behr | Movie MagicMQ5-45 · Behr | 1.6 | 49 | Color page → |
| Benjamin Moore | Blue Orchid2069-50 · Benjamin Moore | 4.2 | 50 | Color page → |
| Valspar | Peri Wink8003-47B · Valspar | 1.4 | 49 | Color page → |
| PPG / Glidden | Sailor Boy1164-4 · PPG / Glidden | 2.1 | 49 | Color page → |
| Glidden | DreamyPPG1164-4 · Glidden | 2.1 | 49 | Color page → |
| Dunn-Edwards | Winter DuskDE5933 · Dunn-Edwards | 3.7 | 45 | Color page → |
Similar Dutch Boy Colors
The nearest shades to Salted Lavender within Dutch Boy'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 #B3BBCF in HSL space. Pair Salted Lavender with one accent and one neutral — the swatches below are starting points, not final picks.
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