Blue Pot

This is the kind of blue undertone that works in more rooms than it does not, which is rarer than it sounds. In the Vista Paint lineup this is 0624.

At LRV 43.0 it sits where most rooms want a wall: light enough to feel open, dark enough to have a surface. At chroma 10.6 the blue undertone is clear in daylight and softer under lamps.

A reasonable choice for a room that needs to feel grounded without going as dark as a true accent color. 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. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 47.3 LRV points from this one).

Rooms already built around oranges and warm terracotta 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 43.0 / 64 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

Behr Perfect Landing (S520-3) runs close enough - delta-E 1.04 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. This is not a rare shade: 3 colors from other brands sit within delta-E 2 of it. Matte or low-sheen suits it on walls; higher gloss will exaggerate the undertone.

It is lighter than 44 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.