Garden Country

This sits close to white on the light meter but keeps its yellow clearly enough to be picked out of a lineup of whites. Vista Paint lists it as Garden Country (0279).

58.0 on the light-reflectance scale puts it in the middle third, which is the part of the scale with the fewest surprises. At chroma 15.5 the yellow is clear in daylight and softer under lamps.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. Works well in rooms that need brightness but where a plain white feels too cold or too clinical. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 32.3 LRV points from this one).

Farrow & Ball Savage Ground (213) matches it closely enough that no one will tell them apart on a wall. 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 62 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 382 colors measure within a point of 58.0 - so most brands will have something close. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.