Blue Chip
Blue Chip is a Purple paint color from Sherwin-Williams, but its character reaches beyond a single label. Its blue classifications hint at the directions it may take as daylight, lamps and neighboring colors move around it. Treat the digital swatch as an opening note, then watch a physical sample from morning light through evening lamps.
Hex
#016EA7LRV
13.26
Blue Chip's Color Strip
Blue Chip is the first shade on this 7-color strip, the lightest in this coordinated family. Browsing strip 176 alongside this color helps you gauge whether to go lighter, darker, or stay right here.
Blue Chip in Rooms
Follow Blue Chip from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 1 sourced room photo offers a closer look at the color in lived-in settings.
1 Misc Photo
Blue Chip (6959) brings its purple character into an assortment of spaces that reveals the color outside a single design formula. Its brighter saturation allows the hue to remain present rather than fading quietly into the background.
Ceiling painted in Blue Chip adds unexpected color overhead.
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Coordinating Colors
At LRV 84 vs 13, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
Trim Color
At LRV 84 vs 13, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
Blue Chip reads slightly lighter (LRV 13 vs 10), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 13 vs 10), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Blue Plate reads slightly lighter (LRV 17 vs 13), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 13 vs 12), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 14 and 13, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
Raucous Orange reads slightly lighter (LRV 18 vs 13), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 38 vs 13, Bakelite Gold is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 39 vs 13, Ceremonial Gold is decisively the brighter choice.
August Moon reflects far more light (LRV 60 vs 13), opening up a space where Blue Chip encloses it.
Lighter Colors
Blue Plate reads slightly lighter (LRV 17 vs 13), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 11-point LRV gap (24 vs 13) makes Dynamic Blue the marginally brighter of the two.
Darker Colors
Blue Chip reads slightly lighter (LRV 13 vs 10), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV NaN vs NaN, Blue Grotto is decisively the brighter choice.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 13 vs 10), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
This dark vibrant violet, infused with a deep cerulean blue, is a cool, powerful dose of saturated color. To make it really pop pair with a cool bright white.