Boing!

There is nothing quiet about this one - it is meant to be noticed. Boing! is Vista Paint's AC119.

Chroma 64.2 is high enough to dominate a room's palette rather than join it. On one wall of an otherwise neutral room, this reads as a deliberate choice rather than an overwhelming one.

Afternoon sun will push the red further warm; if that reads as too much, a cooler bulb in the room can pull it back. LRV 20.0 puts it in the middle of the scale, but saturation, not lightness, is what you will react to.

In warm light this stays red; under cooler, daylight-style bulbs it can slide toward orange. It's close enough to that edge that a sample is worth checking in the room's own lighting, not under a store's. Worth checking before committing to a full wall: blues and cool greys nearby - in a floor, a rug, a piece of furniture - will read as a clash here, not a complement, since the two colors sit at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Next to it, white trim reads brighter and cooler than it does anywhere else in the house - the gap in light reflectance is what does that, not the trim paint itself. The safest multi-color scheme moves from this dark wall to a noticeably lighter secondary tone, then to a near-white ceiling - three genuinely different depths rather than three shades of the same idea (LRV 20.0, 53 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

For a secondary wall, Behr Mineral Water gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 58 LRV points apart). If the wall needs to be washable, eggshell is the highest sheen worth considering before the color starts looking artificial under light.

For anyone tied to a different brand, Behr Top Tomato (P180-7) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 2.76. No other brand has a color within delta-E 2 of this one - a genuinely uncommon shade.

It is lighter than 18 percent of the Vista Paint range. Among reds it is one of the strongest: only 2 percent of them carry more colour. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.