Coral Cloud

Light enough to feel airy, colored enough that it still counts as a decision rather than a default. 8019, from Vista Paint.

74.0 on the light-reflectance scale puts it in the middle third, which is the part of the scale with the fewest surprises. A chroma of 16.0 is enough to register as a real color choice, without the intensity that would force the rest of a room to match it.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. Holds up across a full room without the visual weight a darker or more saturated color would add. Dunn-Edwards Clear Vision makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 12 points apart in light reflectance).

If the brand is not fixed, Dunn-Edwards Peach (DEC710) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.63. Matte holds the color truest; a subtle sheen will lift it half a shade under lamps.

It is lighter than 77 percent of the Vista Paint range. The name is not unique: Behr M200-4 also sells a color called Coral Cloud, and it is not the same shade. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.