Frontenac Hills

A color with enough presence that "accent" is really the only honest use for it. Vista Paint catalogs it as Frontenac Hills, 7809.

A chroma of 27.8 is well into the range where the color affects everything nearby - light fixtures, glossy surfaces, even skin tones under it. In a room with plenty of natural light, this can cover more wall area than it could in a dim one, where the same color reads heavier.

South light flatters it. In a north-facing room it can turn cold, so sample that wall first. Light reflectance reads 55.0, though with this much color in it that number is the smaller half of the story.

In warm light this stays yellow; under cooler, daylight-style bulbs it can slide toward orange. It's close enough to that edge that a sample is worth checking in the room's own lighting, not under a store's. Rooms already built around blues and cool greys are the hardest fit for this color - the two are opposites, and opposites next to each other rarely feel calm.

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. 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 55.0 / 70 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

Behr Igloo makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 349 points apart in light reflectance). This is not a color that benefits from shine - the saturation does the work, and a flat finish lets it do that evenly.

Switching brands, Behr Almondine (M310-4) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 2.39, near enough for most rooms. Across the other brands, nothing lands within delta-E 2 of this one - there is no easy substitute.

It is lighter than 60 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.