Aquamarine Dream

A mid-weight green undertone. 1135-4, from PPG.

At this LRV (53.0), a room reads as neither bright-white nor dim - a genuinely middle-of-the-road amount of light comes back off the wall. A chroma of 8.3 is enough to register as a real color choice, without the intensity that would force the rest of a room to match it.

Works as a whole-room color in spaces that are lived in rather than passed through, where its depth has time to register. The green undertone is more noticeable under cool, daylight-balanced bulbs than under standard warm ones, which tend to mute it. Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 37.3 points apart in light reflectance).

Rooms already built around pinks and warm blush tones are the hardest fit for this color - the two are opposites, and opposites next to each other rarely feel calm.

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. For layering, pair this with a clearly lighter mid-tone on a secondary wall or cabinetry, and keep the ceiling close to white. The gap between each step should be big enough to see without thinking about it (roughly 53.0 / 69 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

By the numbers, Dutch Boy Fair Maiden (DCP-0456) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.46, well under what the eye can separate. This is not a rare shade: 4 colors from other brands sit within delta-E 2 of it. Eggshell is a common middle ground here - enough durability for a lived-in room without the sheen that would draw attention to wall imperfections.

It is lighter than 54 percent of the PPG range. PPG lists it in the 1000 series, alongside 1,736 other colors.