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What's the closest Dulux match to Little Greene Mid Azure Green?

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There's no proper Dulux match for Little Greene Mid Azure Green — the nearest are Dulux Heathland (ΔE 7.8) and Pine Needle (ΔE 8.5), and both are noticeably off. If you want that exact deep teal-green, stick with the Little Greene original.

Honest answer, mate: Dulux doesn't have a real match for Little Greene Mid Azure Green. The closest two in the Dulux range are Heathland at ΔE 7.8 (LRV 3.8) and Pine Needle at ΔE 8.5 (LRV 5.6) — and a ΔE that high means you'll see the difference plainly on the wall, side by side or not. For context, anything under ΔE 2.5 reads as a very close match and under 1 is imperceptible. We're nowhere near that here.

The trouble is the character of the colour. Mid Azure Green is that rich, slightly blue-leaning teal-green — there's a depth and a cool azure pull to it that the Dulux options just don't replicate. Both Heathland and Pine Needle land in deep green territory but they sit greener and a touch heathery/dusty, so you lose the azure tilt that makes the original sing. As substitutes they'd read as a different colour entirely, not a stand-in.

So my advice: if it's Mid Azure Green you've fallen for, buy Mid Azure Green. Little Greene's Intelligent Matt or Absolute Matt holds that depth of colour beautifully, and on a teal this saturated the pigment quality genuinely shows — cheaper trade emulsions tend to go flat and patchy on the deep tones.

If the reason you're after a Dulux equivalent is purely budget or trade availability, I'd rather you picked a deep teal that Dulux actually does well and own that choice, than accept a poor match and feel let down once it's up. Order a sample pot of the Little Greene first, paint two coats on a big bit of lining paper, and live with it for a couple of days before you commit. Deep teals shift a lot between daylight and lamplight — you want to see it doing both before the tin's open for real.

Colours from the answer

LRV 2.3
Little Greene
Mid Azure Green
LRV 3.8
Dulux
Heathland
LRV 5.6
Dulux
Pine Needle

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