Cave Painting

Mid-range in both light and color, which is the most forgiving place to be. Vista Paint catalogs it as Cave Painting, 0147.

LRV 53.0 - comfortably in the range that suits a whole room rather than one wall. A chroma of 11.3 is enough to register as a real color choice, without the intensity that would force the rest of a room to match it.

A reasonable choice for a room that needs to feel grounded without going as dark as a true accent color. Afternoon sun will push the orange undertone further warm; if that reads as too much, a cooler bulb in the room can pull it back. Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 37.3 points apart in light reflectance).

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.

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. 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 53.0, 69 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

For anyone tied to a different brand, PPG Pueblo (1073-4) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 1.36. 4 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one - a well-populated part of the spectrum with several near-equivalents to choose from. Matte holds the color truest; a subtle sheen will lift it half a shade under lamps.

It is lighter than 56 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.