Fine Burgundy

This sits near the floor of the scale, and the pink is the difference between a genuine black and a color that only reads as one. Vista Paint lists it as Fine Burgundy (8141).

LRV 11.0 is about as dark as the scale goes, which means every lumen in the room has to come from somewhere other than the walls. A single accent light aimed at this wall will do more to reveal the pink than any amount of ambient room lighting.

Rooms already built around greens are the hardest fit for this color - the two are opposites, and opposites next to each other rarely feel calm.

Warm metals - brass, aged gold, unlacquered fixtures - gain a contrast against this that they do not have against a lighter wall; it is a common reason people choose a color this deep in the first place. For layering, pair this with a clearly lighter mid-tone on a secondary wall or cabinetry, and keep the ceiling close to white. The gap between each step should be big enough to see without thinking about it (roughly 11.0 / 48 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

In a hallway or transition space that is not lived in for long stretches, the loss of reflected light matters less than it would in a living room. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Benjamin Moore Winter Solstice keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 39.7 LRV points from this one).

Higher-sheen finishes will bounce highlights across a wall this dark, which can read as patchy rather than deliberate - matte avoids that.

Behr Raspberry Crush (M120-7) runs close enough - delta-E 2.37 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. Across the other brands, nothing lands within delta-E 2 of this one - there is no easy substitute.

It is lighter than 8 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 546 colors measure within a point of 11.0 - so most brands will have something close. The name is not unique: Behr HDC-CL-02 also sells a color called Fine Burgundy, and it is not the same shade. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.