Chamois Shirt

This is a color that decides the room rather than supporting it. Vista Paint's designation for it is 8590.

Chroma 33.1 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. Ideal for a single accent wall or a small room where you want to commit.

Warm bulbs make it warmer still; daylight bulbs cool it back toward neutral. LRV 24.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

Not quite orange, not quite red - this sits right where the two meet, so the room's own lighting ends up deciding which one you actually see. 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 24.0, 55 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

Behr Mainsail pairs well as a second surface - close enough in feel to belong in the same room, far enough in lightness to read as two distinct walls (about 49 points apart on the reflectance scale). Matte suits a color this strong - a glossier sheen would turn every light source in the room into a visible hotspot on the wall.

For anyone tied to a different brand, Benjamin Moore Suntan Bronze (1217) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 1.89. Only 1 other-brand color land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual.

It is lighter than 23 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.