Hermosa

Strong enough that it sets the palette for the room, not the other way around. 7167 in the Vista Paint range.

Chroma 20.4 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. Ideal for a single accent wall or a small room where you want to commit.

The blue is more noticeable under cool, daylight-balanced bulbs than under standard warm ones, which tend to mute it. LRV 36.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

If the room already has yellows and warm gold in the floor, a rug, or the furniture, this color will fight it rather than sit well beside it - the two sit at opposite ends of the color spectrum, which is exactly why they clash instead of blend.

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. A natural scheme here moves in three clear steps: this color on the main wall, a noticeably lighter mid-tone for a second wall or built-in, and a near-white on the ceiling. Each jump should be obvious at a glance, not something you have to squint to tell apart (roughly 36.0, 61 and 85 on the light-reflectance scale, for reference).

Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse 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 54.3 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.

Across the other brands, nothing lands within delta-E 2 of this one - there is no easy substitute.

It is lighter than 33 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 378 colors measure within a point of 36.0 - so most brands will have something close. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.