Cool Spring

A wash of green over a mostly-light base, which is a harder balance to hit than it sounds. Cool Spring is Vista Paint's 0735.

At LRV 65.0 it sits where most rooms want a wall: light enough to feel open, dark enough to have a surface. Chroma 15.3 sits in a comfortable middle: present enough to notice, restrained enough to live with.

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. Holds up across a full room without the visual weight a darker or more saturated color would add. For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 25.3 LRV points apart).

Dunn-Edwards Misty Afternoon (DE5639) runs close enough - delta-E 2.38 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. A satin finish is worth it in a room that needs to be wiped down often, at the cost of showing a bit more of the wall's surface than a flat finish would.

It is lighter than 68 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.