Goldfinch

Saturated enough that everything else in the room answers to it. Vista Paint files it as 7942.

Chroma 71.4 is high enough to dominate a room's palette rather than join it. Best reserved for rooms you pass through or visit rather than ones you spend hours in - the intensity that makes a strong first impression can tire the eye over a full day.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. LRV 61.0 puts it in the middle of the scale, but saturation, not lightness, is what you will react to.

In warm light this stays orange; under cooler, daylight-style bulbs it can slide toward yellow. 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 a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Rainy Day gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 21.2 LRV points apart). If the wall needs to be washable, eggshell is the highest sheen worth considering before the color starts looking artificial under light.

For anyone tied to a different brand, Valspar Chickadee (3002-1B) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 1.23. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 1 color from other brands come this close.

It is lighter than 65 percent of the Vista Paint range. Light reflectance this exact is unusual: 1 color in the whole catalog measure within a point of 61.0. The name is not unique: Benjamin Moore 187 and Sherwin-Williams SW 6905 also sell a color called Goldfinch, and it is not the same shade. Among oranges it is one of the strongest: only 5 percent of them carry more colour. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.