Grasslands

A color with enough presence that "accent" is really the only honest use for it. Vista Paint catalogs it as Grasslands, 0333.

A chroma of 20.2 is well into the range where the color affects everything nearby - light fixtures, glossy surfaces, even skin tones under it. 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.

It holds up in a north-facing room, which is where warmth is usually missing. Light reflectance reads 17.0, though with this much color in it that number is the smaller half of the story.

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.

Wood tones next to this read darker and richer than they do against a paler wall; it is one of the more dependable effects of putting a light-absorbing color next to anything reflective. 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 17.0, 51 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

Dunn-Edwards Silver Bullet makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 29.5 points apart in light reflectance). This is not a color that benefits from shine - the saturation does the work, and a flat finish lets it do that evenly.

By the numbers, Dunn-Edwards Camouflage (DEA172) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.4, well under what the eye can separate. 3 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 15 percent of the Vista Paint range. The name is not unique: Behr P410-7 and Benjamin Moore CC-590 also sell a color called Grasslands, and it is not the same shade. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.