Forest Falls

A mid-weight teal undertone. Vista Paint catalogs it as Forest Falls, 8343.

At this LRV (29.0), a room reads as neither bright-white nor dim - a genuinely middle-of-the-road amount of light comes back off the wall. A chroma of 8.1 is enough to register as a real color choice, without the intensity that would force the rest of a room to match it.

Bedrooms and living rooms, where it is seen in lamplight as much as daylight. Warm bulbs will soften it; daylight bulbs push it further cool. PPG Silver Screen makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 44 points apart in light reflectance).

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

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. 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 29.0 / 57 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

Switching brands, Behr Rainy Afternoon (N430-4) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 1.78, near enough for most rooms. This is not a rare shade: 3 colors from other brands sit within delta-E 2 of it. Matte holds the color truest; a subtle sheen will lift it half a shade under lamps.

It is lighter than 27 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.