Sugar Dust vs Hicks' Blue
Sugar Dust is a Cloverdale Paint color while Hicks' Blue comes from Little Greene. Hue-wise, Sugar Dust belongs to the beige-yellow family and Hicks' Blue to the blue family. Sugar Dust has an LRV of 90. At ΔE 61.8, these are genuinely distinct colors — a strong contrast if used together, or a meaningful choice between two different directions. Below you'll find 3 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Sugar Dust vs Hicks' Blue in Real Spaces
3 real rooms side by side. Seeing Sugar Dust 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
Living rooms test a color across a full range of conditions — morning sun, afternoon shade, and evening lamp light all shift how both of these read. At this scale, the choice between them becomes clear in a way that a swatch alone can't communicate.
Bedroom
Bedroom walls are often seen under warm artificial light, a context that shifts both colors from how they look on a chip. 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.
Bathroom
Bathrooms amplify color — the enclosed space and reflective surfaces make what reads subtle elsewhere feel more present here. 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.
Color Details
Sugar Dust vs Hicks' Blue Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Sugar Dust 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 Sugar Dust comparisons
See how Sugar Dust stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 69), opening up a space where Ammonite encloses it.
A 7-point LRV gap (90 vs 83) makes Sugar Dust the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 90 vs 6, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 52), opening up a space where Purbeck Stone encloses it.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
At LRV 90 vs 52, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 60), opening up a space where Agreeable Gray encloses it.
At LRV 90 vs 58, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 90 vs 27, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 4), opening up a space where Naval encloses it.
At LRV 90 vs 55, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 90 vs 13, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 90 vs 44, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
Sugar Dust reads slightly lighter (LRV 90 vs 84), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 21), opening up a space where Artichoke encloses it.
At LRV 90 vs 66, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 90 vs 74, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
A 7-point LRV gap (90 vs 83) makes Sugar Dust the marginally brighter of the two.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 51), opening up a space where Pigeon encloses it.
At LRV 90 vs 12, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 90 vs 8, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 90 vs 68, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 41), opening up a space where Dix Blue encloses it.
At LRV 90 vs 12, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 90 vs 45, Sugar Dust is decisively the brighter choice.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.
Sugar Dust reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 7), opening up a space where Pine Needle encloses it.