Lilacs in Spring

Soft rather than pale-to-invisible - the purple is faint but genuinely there. 1182 in the Vista Paint range.

At this LRV (67.0), a room reads as neither bright-white nor dim - a genuinely middle-of-the-road amount of light comes back off the wall. Chroma 14.0 keeps the purple present without letting it run the room.

A warm bulb is the easiest fix if this reads colder than expected once it is on the wall. A good fit for bedrooms and nurseries, where softness matters more than intensity. 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 23.3 points apart on the reflectance scale).

For anyone tied to a different brand, Benjamin Moore Pale Iris (2073-60) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 1.32. A satin finish is worth it in a room that needs to be wiped down often, at the cost of showing a bit more of the wall's surface than a flat finish would.

It is lighter than 69 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.