If you love Farrow & Ball’s Bay Area Blue but want it from a more widely stocked range, you have options — it’s a light blue. PaintDial’s closest match from another UK brand is Sky View by Dulux (very close), with every other close match ranked below.
Sky View by Dulux is the closest match from any other brand (very close) — though it’s slightly warmer and slightly softer. The closest value-tier option is Squadron by Johnstone's (very close), darker (about 2 LRV points), noticeably warmer and noticeably softer. A warmer match reads warmer again in a south-facing room that gets direct sun. No other brand gets within a near-identical match of Bay Area Blue — it’s one of the more distinctive colours in the library, so expect a visible difference whichever you pick. LRV is estimated from each brand’s swatch, so order testers before committing.
Below is every genuinely close match to Bay Area Blue from the other eight brands — ranked purely by closeness, so where one brand has several near-misses, they all appear. For the single best match per brand, see the Bay Area Blue colour page.
The nearest Dulux colour is Sky View (very close). It won’t be pixel-perfect, so order a tester before committing.
Of the close matches, Squadron by Johnstone's is the best-value option (value, very close).
The list shows every genuinely close match from other brands, ranked nearest-first by perceptual colour difference — including several from one brand where they’re all close. Screens differ from paint on a wall, so treat these as a shortlist and always order tester pots.
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See the full Bay Area Blue colour page →