Lime Ricky

A color with enough presence that "accent" is really the only honest use for it. Vista Paint catalogs it as Lime Ricky, 7775.

A chroma of 53.6 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.

This is a color worth testing in the specific room it is going in - cool colors shift more than warm ones do between north and south walls. Light reflectance reads 69.0, though with this much color in it that number is the smaller half of the story.

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.

Dunn-Edwards First Snow makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 16.7 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.

If the brand is not fixed, Behr Citron (400B-4) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.94. Only 1 other-brand color land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual.

It is lighter than 74 percent of the Vista Paint range. The name is not unique: Benjamin Moore 393 also sells a color called Lime Ricky, and it is not the same shade. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.