Icy
Icy begins as a purple color on paper, then shifts with every surface, shadow and neighboring material. Its blue classifications hint at the directions it may take as daylight, lamps and neighboring colors move around it. The manufacturer's description below offers one reading; the room imagery leaves space for your own.
Hex
#BBC7D2LRV
56.17
Icy's Color Strip
Icy is the second shade on this 7-color strip, sitting between Mild Blue and Solitude. The strip spans from Mild Blue at the lightest end to Dignified at the deepest. Browsing strip 186 alongside this color helps you gauge whether to go lighter, darker, or stay right here.
Icy in Rooms
Follow Icy from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 10 generated visualizations explore how the color might shape a finished room.
1 Dining Room Photo
Across 1 dining room image, Icy (6534) meets natural light, candles and pendant lighting. Its cool classification can bring a composed, clean tension to warmer finishes.
Icy paint in a mid century dining room
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1 Bedroom Photo
The 1 bedroom image turn a purple swatch into something more spatial and expressive. Its midtone saturation keeps the color expressive without letting it dominate every surface around it.
A moody bedroom painted in Icy
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1 Front Door Photo
Icy (6534) moves through 1 front door image without becoming a fixed prescription for the room. Its cool classification can bring a composed, clean tension to warmer finishes.
modern luxury front door featuring Icy by Sherwin-Williams
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1 Home Office Photo
The transition between focused work and the rest of the home can draw different notes from Icy (6534). The blue hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
Sherwin-Williams Icy in a moody home office
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1 Living Room Photo
The room’s shift from daytime energy to evening calm can draw different notes from Icy (6534). The blue hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
A minimalist living room painted in Icy
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1 Patio Photo
These 1 patio image show how Icy (6534) can sit beside stone, timber, metal, textiles and greenery. The blue hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
rustic modern patio featuring Icy by Sherwin-Williams
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1 House Photo
The façade’s movement through sun, shade and season can draw different notes from Icy (6534). The blue hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
Icy color — coastal house inspiration
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1 Mudroom Photo
Icy (6534) offers a starting mood rather than a finished formula: Its cool classification can bring a composed, clean tension to warmer finishes. Test it under doorway light and the softer illumination of an internal passage.
Icy paint in a small mudroom
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1 Kitchen Photo
The changing light from breakfast through dinner can draw different notes from Icy (6534). The blue hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
Icy — organic modern kitchen
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1 Bathroom Photo
In a compact setting where tile, fixtures and color sit close together, the most interesting quality of Icy (6534) may be the way it responds to tile, stone, glass, timber and metal fixtures. The blue hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
Icy — earthy bathroom
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Coordinating Colors
Rarified Air reflects far more light (LRV 78 vs 56), opening up a space where Icy encloses it.
At LRV 73 vs 56, Modest White is decisively the brighter choice.
Icy reflects far more light (LRV 56 vs 37), opening up a space where Trusty Tan encloses it.
Trim Color
Rarified Air reflects far more light (LRV 78 vs 56), opening up a space where Icy encloses it.
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 57 vs 56), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 56 vs 55), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 3-point LRV gap (59 vs 56) makes Wondrous Blue the marginally brighter of the two.
With LRVs of 56 and 56, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 8-point LRV gap (56 vs 48) makes Icy the marginally brighter of the two.
Bewitching Blue reads slightly lighter (LRV 61 vs 56), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Complementary Colors
At LRV 56 vs 35, Icy is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 81 vs 56, Heavenly White is decisively the brighter choice.
Original White reflects far more light (LRV 74 vs 56), opening up a space where Icy encloses it.
Icy reflects far more light (LRV 56 vs 20), opening up a space where Warm Stone encloses it.
Lighter Colors
Darker Colors
A 8-point LRV gap (56 vs 48) makes Icy the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 56 vs 29, Icy is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 56 vs 35, Icy is decisively the brighter choice.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
This cool, wintery violet works wonderfully in a snug bathroom or bedroom. Its frosty blue undertone gives this hue a calming effect.