Calamities vs Hicks' Blue
Where Calamities belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Hicks' Blue is a Little Greene color. Hue-wise, Calamities belongs to the blue-grey family and Hicks' Blue to the blue family. Calamities has an LRV of 62. With a ΔE of 47.7, the contrast is hard to miss. These aren't variations on a theme — they're two different answers to the same question. Below you'll find 3 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Calamities vs Hicks' Blue in Real Spaces
3 real rooms side by side. Seeing Calamities and Hicks' Blue in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
Living Room
In a living room, color works across both daylight and evening light — the same wall can read very differently at noon and at 8pm. Side by side like this, the difference is easy to read — which is exactly why seeing them in a real space is more useful than comparing chips.
Bedroom
The context that matters most in a bedroom is how a color reads under a bedside lamp at night, not under noon daylight. The distinction reads clearly at room scale, making the choice between them concrete.
Bathroom
Bathrooms are one of the few spaces where you're genuinely enclosed by the paint color, which makes the choice between these two more consequential. The distinction reads clearly at room scale, making the choice between them concrete.
Color Details
Calamities vs Hicks' Blue Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Calamities on one side and Hicks' Blue on the other.
Digital color is approximate. These simulations are generated from the manufacturer's hex values and overlaid on grayscale room photos — your screen's calibration, brightness, and viewing angle all affect how they render. Before committing to either color, test physical samples in your own space under the light you actually live with.
More Calamities comparisons
See how Calamities stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
A 7-point LRV gap (69 vs 62) makes Ammonite the marginally brighter of the two.
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 62), opening up a space where Calamities encloses it.
Calamities reflects far more light (LRV 62 vs 6), opening up a space where Iron Ore encloses it.
A 10-point LRV gap (62 vs 52) makes Calamities the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 62 vs 30, Calamities is decisively the brighter choice.
Calamities reads slightly lighter (LRV 62 vs 52), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 62 vs 60), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Calamities reads slightly lighter (LRV 62 vs 58), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Calamities reflects far more light (LRV 62 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
At LRV 62 vs 43, Calamities is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 62 vs 4, Calamities is decisively the brighter choice.
Calamities reads slightly lighter (LRV 62 vs 55), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Calamities reflects far more light (LRV 62 vs 13), opening up a space where Bancha encloses it.
Calamities reflects far more light (LRV 62 vs 44), opening up a space where Hardwick White encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 62, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 62 vs 21, Calamities is decisively the brighter choice.
Balboa Mist reads slightly lighter (LRV 66 vs 62), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Shoji White reflects far more light (LRV 74 vs 62), opening up a space where Calamities encloses it.
Snowbound reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 62), opening up a space where Calamities encloses it.
A 11-point LRV gap (62 vs 51) makes Calamities the marginally brighter of the two.
Calamities reflects far more light (LRV 62 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
Calamities reflects far more light (LRV 62 vs 8), opening up a space where Duck Green encloses it.
Skimming Stone reads slightly lighter (LRV 68 vs 62), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 62 vs 41, Calamities is decisively the brighter choice.
Calamities reflects far more light (LRV 62 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
Calamities reflects far more light (LRV 62 vs 45), opening up a space where Saybrook Sage encloses it.
At LRV 62 vs 31, Calamities is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 62 vs 7, Calamities is decisively the brighter choice.