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VALSPAR · T532

Valspar Fairy Bubbles#C8BEBF · LRV 53.1

Fairy Bubbles reads as a red / warm — light — bounces daylight without going clinical. The notes below cover the spec, what Valspar T532 actually looks like under different light, and the closest matches at competing US brands.

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VALSPAR FAIRY BUBBLES
RGB 200, 190, 191 LRV 53.1

Color spec

Brand Valspar
Name Fairy Bubbles
SKU T532
Hex #C8BEBF
RGB 200, 190, 191
HSL 354°, 8%, 76%
LRV 53.1
Undertone red / warm
Family Gray

About Valspar Fairy Bubbles

At LRV 53.1, Fairy Bubbles is a light color that bounces daylight around a room without tipping into stark white. Its red 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.

Fairy Bubbles 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. Grays like this read as a modern neutral and sit comfortably alongside both warm woods and cool metals.

Kompozit alternative

The closest hex in the Kompozit deck, ranked by ΔE2000 (perceptual color difference). ΔE under 2 is indistinguishable to most eyes; under 5 is a very close visual match.

KOMPOZIT
Place of Dust
SKU 0539 · #C6C3C0 · LRV 55
ΔE 4.52 (noticeable)
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Closest matches at every US brand

9 brands · top 5 each

5 closest matches per brand by ΔE2000, computed against each brand's full deck. Tap any swatch for its full single-color spec; tap the brand title to browse all gray from that brand.

Benjamin Moore

3,934 colors in deck · best ΔE 1.7
All gray at Benjamin Moore →
1445
#C4BCC0
Piano Concerto
ΔE 1.7 · LRV 51
2115-50
#C4BBC0
Iced Mauve
ΔE 2.1 · LRV 51
CSP-495
#C0BCBC
Through the Looking Glass
ΔE 3.06 · LRV
1249
#CDB9BB
Homespun Charm
ΔE 4.18 · LRV
1466
#C1BFBA
Smoke Embers
ΔE 5.8 · LRV 51

Sherwin-Williams

1,526 colors in deck · best ΔE 1.89
All gray at Sherwin-Williams →
SW 62
#C6B9B8
Studio Mauve
ΔE 1.89 · LRV 50
SW 6548
#C5C0C9
Grape Mist
ΔE 4.13 · LRV 54
SW 7672
#C3C1BC
Knitting Needles
ΔE 5.79 · LRV 53
SW 55
#C2C0BB
Light French Gray
ΔE 5.79 · LRV 53
SW 7649
#C2C0BA
Silverplate
ΔE 6.24 · LRV 53

Behr

4,699 colors in deck · best ΔE 2.35
All gray at Behr →
N170-3
#CAC1BE
Gray Ashlar
ΔE 2.35 · LRV 54
MQ5-32
#C3BEC3
Such Melodrama
ΔE 2.73 · LRV 52
PPU18-10
#C4BFBC
Natural Gray
ΔE 3.56 · LRV 53
MQ3-1
#D1BFBB
Josephine
ΔE 3.72 · LRV 54
HDC-WR15-3
#C2BFBC
Noble Gray
ΔE 4.45 · LRV 52

PPG / Glidden

2,088 colors in deck · best ΔE 2.45
All gray at PPG / Glidden →
1047-4
#D0C1C3
Ancestral
ΔE 2.45 · LRV 55
1004-3
#C4BDBA
Hush
ΔE 2.85 · LRV 52
1017-3
#C8BCB7
Fond Memory
ΔE 3.09 · LRV 52
1005-3
#C2BDBA
Gray Shadows
ΔE 3.61 · LRV 51
1013-3
#BEC0C2
Whirlwind
ΔE 5.84 · LRV 53

Dunn-Edwards

1,696 colors in deck · best ΔE 2.87
All gray at Dunn-Edwards →
DE6031
#CDBDBA
Wafting Gray
ΔE 2.87 · LRV 53
DE6059
#C5B9B4
Chocolate Milk
ΔE 3.32 · LRV 50
DEC795
#C3C0BB
Gray Pearl
ΔE 5.34 · LRV 53
DE6360
#C0C3C4
Foil
ΔE 6.61 · LRV 54
DE6353
#BBBFC3
Silver Lined
ΔE 6.83 · LRV 52

Clare

78 colors in deck · best ΔE 4.09
All gray at Clare →
PNT100-LT-13
#C2B8B2
Greige
ΔE 4.09 · LRV 49
PNT100-LT-09
#C1C3C0
Motor City
ΔE 7.02 · LRV 54
PNT100-LT-08
#CBCBC5
Windy City
ΔE 7.57 · LRV 59
PNT100-LT-10
#C1CAC5
Grayish
ΔE 11.13 · LRV 58
PNT100-LT-37
#B1C6CA
Summer Friday
ΔE 14.88 · LRV 54

Magnolia Home

160 colors in deck · best ΔE 5.24
All gray at Magnolia Home →
JG-133
#C6BBB2
Cinnamon Sugar
ΔE 5.24 · LRV 51
JG-127
#C7C2BB
Anatolian
ΔE 5.56 · LRV 54
JG-83
#C1C5C5
Loft
ΔE 7.38 · LRV 55
JG-123
#BBBDB9
Day-to-day
ΔE 7.43 · LRV 50
JG-93
#C1C6CE
Cement Pots
ΔE 7.48 · LRV 56

Farrow & Ball

132 colors in deck · best ΔE 5.59
All gray at Farrow & Ball →
NO. 242
#C8C3BC
Pavilion Gray
ΔE 5.59 · LRV 55
NO. 229
#CCBFB3
Elephant's Breath
ΔE 6.43 · LRV 53
NO. 275
#C4BEB4
Purbeck Stone
ΔE 6.73 · LRV 52
NO. 22
#B8BCB5
Light Blue
ΔE 9.5 · LRV 49
NO. 266
#C0C2B3
Mizzle
ΔE 11.53 · LRV 53

Backdrop

30 colors in deck · best ΔE 9.92
All gray at Backdrop →
BD-AU
#E5C8B7
August
ΔE 9.92 · LRV 60
BD-RR
#D6CFBE
Real Real
ΔE 10.35 · LRV 65
BD-BG
#E5BEB0
Boy Meets Girl
ΔE 10.89 · LRV 53
BD-UD
#A4B5BB
Underdog
ΔE 13.66 · LRV 41
BD-LO
#A4C2D2
Lost in the 80s
ΔE 17.39 · LRV 51

Similar Valspar colors

closest in the Valspar deck

The nearest shades to Fairy Bubbles within Valspar's own range, ranked by perceptual color distance — useful when you want the same look a touch lighter, darker, or warmer.

8004-3C
Oyster Bay
LRV 53
P001
Lavender Sand
LRV 52.8
V076-2
Mischief
LRV 52.2
8003-2C
Calm Cupid
LRV 53
8006-11C
Rocky Shelter
LRV 54
8004-5C
Cathedral Morning
LRV 54

Coordinated palette

Generated by hue-rotating #C8BEBF in HSL space. Pair Fairy Bubbles with one accent and one neutral — the swatches below are starting points, not final picks.

COMPLEMENTARY
#C8BEBF + #BEC8C7
TRIADIC
#C8BEBF · #BFC8BE · #BEBFC8
ANALOGOUS
#C8BEC4 · #C8BEBF · #C8C2BE

Accessibility (WCAG contrast)

Sample text on white
1.81:1 fail
Sample text on black
11.57:1 AAA

WCAG 2.1: AA = 4.5:1 normal text · AA Large = 3:1 large text · AAA = 7:1 normal text.

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