Cedar Lake

A color built for commitment, not for blending in. 7687, from Vista Paint.

A chroma of 21.6 is well into the range where the color affects everything nearby - light fixtures, glossy surfaces, even skin tones under it. In a room with plenty of natural light, this can cover more wall area than it could in a dim one, where the same color reads heavier.

The yellow-green is more noticeable under cool, daylight-balanced bulbs than under standard warm ones, which tend to mute it. Light reflectance reads 30.0, though with this much color in it that number is the smaller half of the story.

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 30.0, 58 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

Vista Paint Desired Dawn makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 40 points apart in light reflectance). This is not a color that benefits from shine - the saturation does the work, and a flat finish lets it do that evenly.

Switching brands, Benjamin Moore Misted Fern (CC-668) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 1.01, near enough for most rooms. Only 1 other-brand color land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual.

It is lighter than 27 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 581 colors measure within a point of 30.0 - so most brands will have something close. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.