Cimarron Trail

This is a statement first and a wall color second. Vista Paint lists it as Cimarron Trail (7998).

At chroma 47.7 it will not sit quietly next to another strong color. On one wall of an otherwise neutral room, this reads as a deliberate choice rather than an overwhelming one.

The orange leans into warm light rather than fighting it, so this is a forgiving choice under standard incandescent or warm-LED bulbs. 36.0 on the light-reflectance scale is unremarkable on its own; the chroma is what actually drives how this color behaves.

In warm light this stays orange; under cooler, daylight-style bulbs it can slide toward red. It's close enough to that edge that a sample is worth checking in the room's own lighting, not under a store's. 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 36.0, 61 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Dunn-Edwards Distant Horizon keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 56.7 LRV points from this one). A flatter finish keeps this much color from creating harsh reflections.

No other brand has a color within delta-E 2 of this one - a genuinely uncommon shade.

It is lighter than 33 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 378 colors measure within a point of 36.0 - so most brands will have something close. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.