Good-Looking

There is no reading this as a background color. In the Vista Paint lineup this is 0918.

At chroma 24.2 it will not sit quietly next to another strong color. 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.

It holds up in a north-facing room, which is where warmth is usually missing. 67.0 on the light-reflectance scale is unremarkable on its own; the chroma is what actually drives how this color behaves.

This color and blues and cool greys don't get along in the same room - they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, so pairing them tends to feel like tension rather than contrast.

Anything pale placed against this wall will look paler than it is; anything warm-metal will look warmer. Neither is an illusion the color plays deliberately - it is simple contrast, but worth planning rather than discovering.

If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Dunn-Edwards Boysenberry Shadow keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 22.6 LRV points from this one). A flatter finish keeps this much color from creating harsh reflections.

If the brand is not fixed, Benjamin Moore Safari (AF-335) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.41. 5 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one - a well-populated part of the spectrum with several near-equivalents to choose from.

It is lighter than 69 percent of the Vista Paint range. Among tans it is one of the strongest: only 1 percent of them carry more colour. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.