It reads as a neutral with a yellow cast. In the Vista Paint lineup this is 8330.
At chroma 5.3 the yellow cast shows up against a neutral background and disappears against anything with stronger colour. A warm bulb is the easiest fix if this reads colder than expected once it is on the wall.
At LRV 50.0 it sits where most rooms want a wall: light enough to feel open, dark enough to have a surface. Open-plan walls, hallways, anywhere the color has to work in several exposures at once.
If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 40.3 LRV points from this one).
By the numbers, Behr Light Year (N370-3) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.54, well under what the eye can separate. This is not a rare shade: 5 colors from other brands sit within delta-E 2 of it. This color reads consistently across most finishes, so the choice can come down to durability needs rather than how it changes the color.
It is lighter than 53 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.
Vista Paint Hi Ho Silver sits between warm and cool: its hue angle is 110° in CIE Lab at a chroma of 5.3, with a yellow cast.
The light reflectance value (LRV) of Vista Paint Hi Ho Silver (8330) is 50.0, on a scale where 0 is absolute black and 100 is absolute white, which makes it a light-to-mid color.
Measured on the color wheel, Vista Paint Hi Ho Silver pairs with Dunn-Edwards Winter Dusk (DE5933, complement), Sherwin-Williams Pearl Gray (SW 0052, analogous, warmer), PPG Mercurial (1006-4, analogous, cooler), Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse (DEW385, soft accent).
Vista Paint Hi Ho Silver's hex value is #BFBFB5, RGB 191, 191, 181.
Vista Paint Hi Ho Silver is classified as a gray, with a yellow cast.
The nearest Pantone TCX color to Vista Paint Hi Ho Silver is 14-4500 TCX Moonstruck, delta-E 1.84; the nearest RAL Classic is RAL 7044 Silk grey, delta-E 0.94.
The closest cross-brand match to Vista Paint Hi Ho Silver is Behr Light Year (N370-3), at a delta-E of 0.54 - close enough to be the same color by measurement.
| HEX | #BFBFB5 |
| RGB | 191, 191, 181 |
| CMYK | 0%, 0%, 5%, 25% |
| HSL | 60°, 7%, 73% |
| HSV | 60°, 5%, 75% |
| CIE Lab | 77.09, -1.8, 5.03 |
| LCh | 77.09, 5.34, 109.7° |
| XYZ | 48.46, 51.67, 51.13 |
| Pantone (nearest) | 14-4500 TCX Moonstruck · ΔE 1.84 |
| RAL (nearest) | RAL 7044 Silk grey · ΔE 0.94 |
| 14-4500 TCX Moonstruck | ΔE 1.84 | |
| 14-4804 TCX Blue Fox | ΔE 2.69 | |
| 14-4502 TCX Mercury | ΔE 3.19 | |
| RAL 7044 Silk grey | ΔE 0.94 | |
| RAL 7038 Agate grey | ΔE 3.35 | |
| RAL 7032 Pebble grey | ΔE 4.48 |
Pantone TCX and RAL Classic are physical standards; these are their published sRGB approximations, so check a fan deck before specifying. Pantone® and RAL are trademarks of their respective owners.
Shades mix the color toward black, tints toward white. Click any step to find the paint colors closest to it.