Dried Mustard

Strong enough that it sets the palette for the room, not the other way around. 7901 in the Vista Paint range.

Chroma 66.8 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. Ideal for a single accent wall or a small room where you want to commit.

The yellow leans into warm light rather than fighting it, so this is a forgiving choice under standard incandescent or warm-LED bulbs. LRV 46.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

In warm light this stays orange; under cooler, daylight-style bulbs it can slide toward yellow. 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.

Anything pale placed against this wall will look paler than it is; anything warm-metal will look warmer. Neither is an illusion the color plays deliberately - it is simple contrast, but worth planning rather than discovering. 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 46.0, 66 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

Dunn-Edwards Snowy Shadow pairs well as a second surface - close enough in feel to belong in the same room, far enough in lightness to read as two distinct walls (about 24.6 points apart on the reflectance scale). Matte suits a color this strong - a glossier sheen would turn every light source in the room into a visible hotspot on the wall.

Switching brands, Behr Midsummer Gold (P280-7) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 2.46, near enough for most rooms. No other brand has a color within delta-E 2 of this one - a genuinely uncommon shade.

It is lighter than 48 percent of the Vista Paint range. The name is not unique: Benjamin Moore 2158-10 also sells a color called Dried Mustard, and it is not the same shade. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.