Ultra Marine Blue is a mid-toned blue from Farrow & Ball. As a premium paint, it’s a popular colour to seek out close matches and value-brand alternatives to.
Ink Wash by Dulux is the closest match from any other brand (very close) — though it’s darker (about 2 LRV points). The closest value-tier option is Blue Chintz by Valspar (very close), just as true to the original. No other brand gets within a near-identical match of Ultra Marine 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 Ultra Marine 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 Ultra Marine Blue colour page.
The nearest Dulux colour is Ink Wash (very close). It won’t be pixel-perfect, so order a tester before committing.
Of the close matches, Blue Chintz by Valspar 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 Ultra Marine Blue colour page →