Onion Skin vs Hicks' Blue
Where Onion Skin belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Hicks' Blue is a Little Greene color. Onion Skin reads as beige-greige, while Hicks' Blue reads as blue — two distinct hue families, not close cousins. Onion Skin has an LRV of 81. With a ΔE of 58.1, 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.
Onion Skin vs Hicks' Blue in Real Spaces
3 real rooms side by side. Seeing Onion Skin 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
Onion Skin vs Hicks' Blue Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Onion Skin 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 Onion Skin comparisons
See how Onion Skin stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 69), opening up a space where Ammonite encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 83 vs 81), so neither reads brighter in a room.
At LRV 81 vs 6, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 52), opening up a space where Purbeck Stone encloses it.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 52, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 60), opening up a space where Agreeable Gray encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 58, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 81 vs 27, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 4), opening up a space where Naval encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 55, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 81 vs 13, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 81 vs 44, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 84 and 81, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 21), opening up a space where Artichoke encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 66, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
A 7-point LRV gap (81 vs 74) makes Onion Skin the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 83 vs 81), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 51), opening up a space where Pigeon encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 12, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 81 vs 8, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 81 vs 68, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 41), opening up a space where Dix Blue encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 12, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 81 vs 45, Onion Skin is decisively the brighter choice.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.
Onion Skin reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 7), opening up a space where Pine Needle encloses it.