Cabin In The Woods

Near the bottom of the LRV scale, where the red undertone stops being read as hue and starts being read as shadow. Behr catalogs it as Cabin In The Woods, MQ2-35.

With an LRV this low (8.0), a room relies entirely on its fixtures; the paint gives nothing back. Under warm light it softens; under daylight bulbs it goes hard and flat, with the red undertone only really visible in the warmer of the two.

Worth checking before committing to a full wall: blues and cool greys nearby - in a floor, a rug, a piece of furniture - will read as a clash here, not a complement, since the two colors sit at opposite ends of the spectrum.

The lighter the trim beside this, the more it will seem to glow - a side effect of the light-reflectance gap rather than anything special about the trim color. The safest multi-color scheme moves from this dark wall to a noticeably lighter secondary tone, then to a near-white ceiling - three genuinely different depths rather than three shades of the same idea (LRV 8.0, 47 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

A single accent wall opposite the main window lets daylight hit it directly, which is where a color this dark actually shows its undertone. Sherwin-Williams Network Gray makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 29.3 points apart in light reflectance).

If the wall has any texture or repair work, matte is worth the trade-off even though it holds up to less scrubbing than a satin or eggshell.

By the numbers, Vista Paint Jeff's Java (8653) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.93, well under what the eye can separate. 5 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one - a well-populated part of the spectrum with several near-equivalents to choose from.

Nearly everything Behr makes is lighter than this: 26 of their 4,550 colors sit below it. Behr lists it in the MQ codes, alongside 371 other colors.