Tavern Ochre

Strong enough that it sets the palette for the room, not the other way around. CW-375 in the Benjamin Moore range.

Chroma 36.4 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. Ideal for a single accent wall or a small room where you want to commit.

The yellow leans into warm light rather than fighting it, so this is a forgiving choice under standard incandescent or warm-LED bulbs. LRV 45.6 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

Depending on the bulb, this can genuinely read as orange or as yellow - it sits right on the border between the two, only 9° apart. 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 45.6, 65 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

Dunn-Edwards Boysenberry Shadow pairs well as a second surface - close enough in feel to belong in the same room, far enough in lightness to read as two distinct walls (about 44 points apart on the reflectance scale). Matte suits a color this strong - a glossier sheen would turn every light source in the room into a visible hotspot on the wall.

If the brand is not fixed, Behr Mustard Field (HDC-AC-08) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.94. 4 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.

It is lighter than 54 percent of the Benjamin Moore range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 369 colors measure within a point of 45.6 - so most brands will have something close. Benjamin Moore lists it in the CW codes, alongside 143 other colors.