Golden Rattan

Strong enough that it sets the palette for the room, not the other way around. 7877 in the Vista Paint range.

Chroma 49.9 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 34.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

Not quite orange, not quite yellow - this sits right where the two meet, so the room's own lighting ends up deciding which one you actually see. Worth checking before committing to a full wall: blues and cool greys nearby - in a floor, a rug, a piece of furniture - will read as a clash here, not a complement, since the two colors sit at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Next to it, white trim reads brighter and cooler than it does anywhere else in the house - the gap in light reflectance is what does that, not the trim paint itself. The safest multi-color scheme moves from this dark wall to a noticeably lighter secondary tone, then to a near-white ceiling - three genuinely different depths rather than three shades of the same idea (LRV 34.0, 60 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

Benjamin Moore Celestia Blue 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 32.1 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.

For anyone tied to a different brand, Benjamin Moore Fields of Gold (203) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 2.53. No other brand has a color within delta-E 2 of this one - a genuinely uncommon shade.

It is lighter than 32 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.