Feather Fern

This is the kind of neutral that earns the word - a yellow-green cast present, but never loud about it. Vista Paint catalogs it as Feather Fern, 0453.

Chroma 6.2 - faint on a chip, unmistakable across a wall. Warm bulbs will soften it; daylight bulbs push it further cool.

LRV 72.0 - comfortably in the range that suits a whole room rather than one wall. It is the sort of color that goes on every wall of a house without feeling overwhelming.

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 18.3 points apart in light reflectance).

Behr Mountain Morn (N400-1) matches it closely enough that no one will tell them apart on a wall. 5 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one - a well-populated part of the spectrum with several near-equivalents to choose from. 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. 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.