Folk Tales

Neither bold nor shy - a yellow with enough weight to matter and enough restraint to live with. In the Vista Paint lineup this is 0368.

Light reflectance measures 16.0, which is enough to keep a room bright without bouncing light around. At chroma 19.3 the yellow is clear in daylight and softer under lamps.

A reasonable choice for a room that needs to feel grounded without going as dark as a true accent color. The yellow is more noticeable under cool, daylight-balanced bulbs than under standard warm ones, which tend to mute it. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Dunn-Edwards Silver Bullet keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 30.5 LRV points from this one).

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.

Wood tones next to this read darker and richer than they do against a paler wall; it is one of the more dependable effects of putting a light-absorbing color next to anything reflective. 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 16.0, 51 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

If the brand is not fixed, Benjamin Moore Greenbrook (517) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.97. Only 2 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual. Matte holds the color truest; a subtle sheen will lift it half a shade under lamps.

It is lighter than 14 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.