Calm Tint

A mid-weight blue. Vista Paint files it as 0645.

LRV 43.0 - comfortably in the range that suits a whole room rather than one wall. Chroma 18.2 sits in a comfortable middle: present enough to notice, restrained enough to live with.

Bedrooms and living rooms, where it is seen in lamplight as much as daylight. 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. For a secondary wall, Vista Paint Light Lavendar gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 42 LRV points apart).

This color and oranges and warm terracotta 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 room needs more than one wall color, keep the steps far apart: this color, then something clearly lighter for a second surface, then a bright white above. Two similar tones just look like a mismatch; three distinct ones read as a plan (about 43.0 to 64 to 85 in LRV terms).

If the brand is not fixed, Behr Sailors Knot (M510-3) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.91. Only 1 other-brand color land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual. This color reads consistently across most finishes, so the choice can come down to durability needs rather than how it changes the color.

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