Fire Dance vs Hicks' Blue
Where Fire Dance belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Hicks' Blue is a Little Greene color. Hue-wise, Fire Dance belongs to the beige-yellow family and Hicks' Blue to the blue family. Fire Dance has an LRV of 67. With a ΔE of 65.6, 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.
Fire Dance vs Hicks' Blue in Real Spaces
3 real rooms side by side. Seeing Fire Dance 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
Fire Dance vs Hicks' Blue Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Fire Dance 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 Fire Dance comparisons
See how Fire Dance stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 69 vs 67), so neither reads brighter in a room.
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 67), opening up a space where Fire Dance encloses it.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 6), opening up a space where Iron Ore encloses it.
At LRV 67 vs 52, Fire Dance is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 67 vs 30, Fire Dance is decisively the brighter choice.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 52), opening up a space where Mizzle encloses it.
A 7-point LRV gap (67 vs 60) makes Fire Dance the marginally brighter of the two.
Fire Dance reads slightly lighter (LRV 67 vs 58), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
At LRV 67 vs 43, Fire Dance is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 67 vs 4, Fire Dance is decisively the brighter choice.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 55), opening up a space where Tranquil Dawn encloses it.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 13), opening up a space where Bancha encloses it.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 44), opening up a space where Hardwick White encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 67, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 67 vs 21, Fire Dance is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 67 and 66, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Shoji White reads slightly lighter (LRV 74 vs 67), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Snowbound reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 67), opening up a space where Fire Dance encloses it.
At LRV 67 vs 51, Fire Dance is decisively the brighter choice.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 8), opening up a space where Duck Green encloses it.
With LRVs of 68 and 67, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
At LRV 67 vs 41, Fire Dance is decisively the brighter choice.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
Fire Dance reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 45), opening up a space where Saybrook Sage encloses it.
At LRV 67 vs 31, Fire Dance is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 67 vs 7, Fire Dance is decisively the brighter choice.