Fancy Pants (BM CSP-525)
Illustrative room. Screen colors vary; test a sample before you paint.
Fancy Pants (BM CSP-525) is a very deep, cool purple from Benjamin Moore: LRV 14.6, so it reflects about 15 percent of the light that hits it.
Colors that go with Fancy Pants
Four Benjamin Moore colors picked for Fancy Pants by this site's color math: a trim white, a deeper purple, a quiet contrast from another family, a dark accent. Benjamin Moore did not choose these pairings.
Closest match in every other brand
Each brand's closest color to Fancy Pants, ranked by CIEDE2000 (deltaE): under 1.0 is indistinguishable, 1.0 to 2.3 very close, 2.3 to 5 noticeably different, over 5 clearly different.
| Brand | Closest color | Code | LRV | deltaE | How close |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwin-Williams | Luxe Blue | SW 6537 | 13 | 5.1 | clearly different |
| Behr | Breathtaking | 610B-7 | 12.5 | 0.8 | indistinguishable |
| Valspar | Indigo | 4003-8C | 13 | 1.3 | very close |
| PPG Paints | Blue Odyssey | 1166-6 | 14 | 4.1 | noticeably different |
Lighter and darker in Benjamin Moore
The Benjamin Moore purple colors nearest to Fancy Pants (LRV 14.6) by LRV.
Lighter than Fancy Pants
Darker than Fancy Pants
Color data
| Brand | Benjamin Moore |
|---|---|
| Color code | CSP-525 |
| Hex | #53618F |
| RGB | 83, 97, 143 |
| HSL | 226°, 27%, 44% |
| LRV (light reflectance value) | 14.6 |
| Lab L*, a*, b* | 41.8, 7.1, -27.1 |
| Undertone | Cool Blue |
| Temperature | cool |
| Color family | Purple |
Same paint, two kinds of light
Fancy Pants (BM CSP-525), published as #53618F
#3D598D
#676A90
These swatches and the rooms above are a simulation, not a measurement. How the visualizer works
Similar shades from Benjamin Moore
More from Benjamin Moore
Common questions
- What is the LRV of Fancy Pants (BM CSP-525)?
- Fancy Pants has an LRV of 14.6. LRV runs from 0 (black) to 100 (pure white) and measures the share of light a surface reflects, so Fancy Pants is a very deep color.
- What is the closest match to Fancy Pants in another brand?
- Breathtaking (Behr 610B-7) from Behr, at a deltaE of 0.8 (indistinguishable).
- Is Fancy Pants warm or cool?
- Benjamin Moore lists Fancy Pants as cool, with a Cool Blue undertone. Its Lab b* value is -27.1; a higher b* is warmer and yellower, a lower one cooler and bluer.
Sources: LRV and hex as published by the manufacturer, via PaintDB (CC BY 4.0). Color differences are CIEDE2000 values computed by this site from the hex values (data snapshot 2026-10-01). Color names and codes belong to their manufacturers.