Glowing Ember

This is a color that decides the room rather than supporting it. Vista Paint's designation for it is AC112.

Chroma 61.6 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. 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.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. LRV 30.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

Depending on the bulb, this can genuinely read as orange or as red - it sits right on the border between the two, only 5° apart. 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 30.0 / 58 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

Behr Mystic Harbor 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 45 points apart on the reflectance scale). Matte suits a color this strong - a glossier sheen would turn every light source in the room into a visible hotspot on the wall.

Switching brands, Behr Solar Flare (S-G-250) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 1.11, near enough for most rooms. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 1 color from other brands come this close.

It is lighter than 27 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 581 colors measure within a point of 30.0 - so most brands will have something close. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.