Desert Palm

Light enough to feel airy, colored enough that it still counts as a decision rather than a default. 8467, from Vista Paint.

62.0 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 8.7 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. A good fit for bedrooms and nurseries, where softness matters more than intensity. Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 28.3 points apart in light reflectance).

If the brand is not fixed, Benjamin Moore Alaskan Skies (972) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.52. 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 65 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.