French Lavender

Soft rather than pale-to-invisible - the pink undertone is faint but genuinely there. 1210 in the Vista Paint range.

LRV 62.0 - comfortably in the range that suits a whole room rather than one wall. Chroma 8.8 keeps the pink undertone present without letting it run the room.

South light flatters it. In a north-facing room it can turn cold, so sample that wall first. Works well in rooms that need brightness but where a plain white feels too cold or too clinical. Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse pairs well as a second surface - close enough in feel to belong in the same room, far enough in lightness to read as two distinct walls (about 28.3 points apart on the reflectance scale).

By the numbers, Valspar Lilac Lace (1003-8C) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.95, well under what the eye can separate. This color reads consistently across most finishes, so the choice can come down to durability needs rather than how it changes the color.

It is lighter than 65 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.