Broadway Lights

Saturated enough that everything else in the room answers to it. Vista Paint files it as 0856.

Chroma 52.6 is high enough to dominate a room's palette rather than join it. Best reserved for rooms you pass through or visit rather than ones you spend hours in - the intensity that makes a strong first impression can tire the eye over a full day.

A warm bulb is the easiest fix if this reads colder than expected once it is on the wall. LRV 76.0 puts it in the middle of the scale, but saturation, not lightness, is what you will react to.

This is one of the colors that can change identity with the light - somewhere between yellow and orange, and near enough to the line between them (0°) that both readings are fair. This color and blues and cool greys don't get along in the same room - they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, so pairing them tends to feel like tension rather than contrast.

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.

If the wall needs to be washable, eggshell is the highest sheen worth considering before the color starts looking artificial under light.

Dunn-Edwards Ripe Pineapple (DE5389) matches it closely enough that no one will tell them apart on a wall. Only 1 other-brand color land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual.

It is lighter than 80 percent of the Vista Paint range. The name is not unique: Benjamin Moore 298 also sells a color called Broadway Lights, and it is not the same shade. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.