Florida Orange

Saturated enough that everything else in the room answers to it. Vista Paint files it as 7949.

Chroma 75.8 is high enough to dominate a room's palette rather than join it. On one wall of an otherwise neutral room, this reads as a deliberate choice rather than an overwhelming one.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. LRV 46.0 puts it in the middle of the scale, but saturation, not lightness, is what you will react to.

This is one of the colors that can change identity with the light - somewhere between orange and yellow, and near enough to the line between them (10°) that both readings are fair. If the room already has blues and cool greys in the floor, a rug, or the furniture, this color will fight it rather than sit well beside it - the two sit at opposite ends of the color spectrum, which is exactly why they clash instead of blend.

The lighter the trim beside this, the more it will seem to glow - a side effect of the light-reflectance gap rather than anything special about the trim color. A natural scheme here moves in three clear steps: this color on the main wall, a noticeably lighter mid-tone for a second wall or built-in, and a near-white on the ceiling. Each jump should be obvious at a glance, not something you have to squint to tell apart (roughly 46.0, 66 and 85 on the light-reflectance scale, for reference).

For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Alaskan Skies gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 24.3 LRV points apart). If the wall needs to be washable, eggshell is the highest sheen worth considering before the color starts looking artificial under light.

Across the other brands, nothing lands within delta-E 2 of this one - there is no easy substitute.

It is lighter than 48 percent of the Vista Paint range. The name is not unique: Benjamin Moore 152 also sells a color called Florida Orange, and it is not the same shade. Among oranges it is one of the strongest: only 3 percent of them carry more colour. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.