Refresh vs Tantalizing Teal
Both are Sherwin-Williams colors. Both sit in the blue family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. With LRVs of 59 and 61, they'll behave almost identically in terms of how much light they reflect back into a room. They share a cool quality — useful to know if you're layering them in the same space. At ΔE 10.2, these are genuinely distinct colors — a strong contrast if used together, or a meaningful choice between two different directions. Below you'll find 2 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Refresh vs Tantalizing Teal in Real Spaces
2 real rooms side by side. Seeing Refresh and Tantalizing Teal in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
House
At full exterior scale, the difference between these two colors becomes much easier to judge than from a small 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.
Front Door
Front doors are seen in isolation against the rest of the facade, which makes them a high-stakes surface where even subtle differences matter. At this scale, the choice between them becomes clear in a way that a swatch alone can't communicate.
Color Details
Refresh vs Tantalizing Teal Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Refresh on one side and Tantalizing Teal 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 Refresh comparisons
See how Refresh stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 59), opening up a space where Refresh encloses it.
A 7-point LRV gap (59 vs 52) makes Refresh the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 59 vs 30, Refresh is decisively the brighter choice.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 60 vs 59), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 59 and 58, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Refresh reflects far more light (LRV 59 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
At LRV 59 vs 43, Refresh is decisively the brighter choice.
Refresh reads slightly lighter (LRV 59 vs 55), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Refresh reflects far more light (LRV 59 vs 44), opening up a space where Hardwick White encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 59, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
Balboa Mist reads slightly lighter (LRV 66 vs 59), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Shoji White reflects far more light (LRV 74 vs 59), opening up a space where Refresh encloses it.
Refresh reflects far more light (LRV 59 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
Refresh reflects far more light (LRV 59 vs 8), opening up a space where Duck Green encloses it.
Skimming Stone reads slightly lighter (LRV 68 vs 59), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Refresh reflects far more light (LRV 59 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
Refresh reflects far more light (LRV 59 vs 45), opening up a space where Saybrook Sage encloses it.
At LRV 59 vs 31, Refresh is decisively the brighter choice.