Santa Fe Spirit

Light, but with enough orange undertone to be a color rather than a white. In the Valspar lineup this is 2001-10C.

LRV 74.0 - comfortably in the range that suits a whole room rather than one wall. At chroma 7.9 the orange undertone is clear in daylight and softer under lamps.

Warm bulbs make it warmer still; daylight bulbs cool it back toward neutral. A dependable choice where a room gets good natural light and a pure white would feel sterile. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Behr Maui Mist keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 330 LRV points from this one).

If the brand is not fixed, Behr Heavenly Aromas (RD-W11) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.64. 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 85 percent of the Valspar range. It is one of the quietest tans in the catalog, which is why it reads as a neutral on a large wall. Valspar lists it in the 2000 series, alongside 269 other colors.