Historic Shade

A mid-weight yellow undertone. 0372 in the Vista Paint range.

At LRV 40.0 it sits where most rooms want a wall: light enough to feel open, dark enough to have a surface. Chroma 11.6 keeps the yellow undertone present without letting it run the room.

Works as a whole-room color in spaces that are lived in rather than passed through, where its depth has time to register. Warm bulbs will soften it; daylight bulbs push it further cool. 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 50.3 points apart on the reflectance scale).

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.

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. If the room needs more than one wall color, keep the steps far apart: this color, then something clearly lighter for a second surface, then a bright white above. Two similar tones just look like a mismatch; three distinct ones read as a plan (about 40.0 to 63 to 85 in LRV terms).

Behr Spartan Stone (780D-5) matches it closely enough that no one will tell them apart on a wall. 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. Eggshell is a common middle ground here - enough durability for a lived-in room without the sheen that would draw attention to wall imperfections.

It is lighter than 41 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.