Blossoms in Spring

Strong enough that it sets the palette for the room, not the other way around. 1157 in the Vista Paint range.

Chroma 36.0 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.

This is a color worth testing in the specific room it is going in - cool colors shift more than warm ones do between north and south walls. LRV 45.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

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

Wood tones next to this read darker and richer than they do against a paler wall; it is one of the more dependable effects of putting a light-absorbing color next to anything reflective. 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 45.0 / 65 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

Vista Paint Fair Winds 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 39 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.

Dunn-Edwards Exotic Violet (DE5003) runs close enough - delta-E 2.86 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. Across the other brands, nothing lands within delta-E 2 of this one - there is no easy substitute.

It is lighter than 46 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.