Pearls And Lace

The kind of neutral that changes name depending on the light, though the yellow cast underneath it stays put. 1074-1, from PPG.

At 6.4 on the chroma scale, this is closer to grey than to color, though the yellow cast keeps it from being either. The yellow cast leans into warm light rather than fighting it, so this is a forgiving choice under standard incandescent or warm-LED bulbs.

LRV 79.0 - comfortably in the range that suits a whole room rather than one wall. A practical choice for rooms that will change decor over time, since a true neutral outlasts trends in furniture and textiles.

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 11.3 points apart in light reflectance).

If the brand is not fixed, Sherwin-Williams Futon (SW 7101) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.38. This is not a rare shade: 7 colors from other brands sit within delta-E 2 of it. A satin finish is worth it in a room that needs to be wiped down often, at the cost of showing a bit more of the wall's surface than a flat finish would.

It is lighter than 89 percent of the PPG range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 549 colors measure within a point of 79.0 - so most brands will have something close. The name is not unique: Behr N130-1 also sells a color called Pearls And Lace, and it is not the same shade. Among grays it is one of the strongest: only 1 percent of them carry more colour. PPG lists it in the 1000 series, alongside 1,736 other colors.