Daring Deception

It has just enough pink cast to have a personality, and just little enough to stay out of the way. Daring Deception is Vista Paint's 1202.

At chroma 6.2 the pink cast shows up against a neutral background and disappears against anything with stronger colour. Warm bulbs will soften it; daylight bulbs push it further cool.

LRV 77.0 - comfortably in the range that suits a whole room rather than one wall. Suits both quiet, restful rooms and busier shared spaces, which is most of what makes a neutral a neutral.

For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 13.3 LRV points apart).

PPG Ballerina (1183-1) matches it closely enough that no one will tell them apart on a wall. This is not a rare shade: 5 colors from other brands sit within delta-E 2 of it. Matte or low-sheen suits it on walls; higher gloss will exaggerate the undertone.

It is lighter than 83 percent of the Vista Paint range. Among grays it is one of the strongest: only 1 percent of them carry more colour. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.