This is depth rather than color in the usual sense - the yellow-green gives it a direction, but the darkness is the point. lots of Lime is Vista Paint's AC159.
LRV 5.0 means it returns almost no light, so whatever lighting the room has is the lighting you will see. Candlelight and low warm bulbs are where this color looks most like its chip; bright overhead light flattens the depth out of it.
In warm light this stays green; under cooler, daylight-style bulbs it can slide toward yellow. It's close enough to that edge that a sample is worth checking in the room's own lighting, not under a store's. Worth checking before committing to a full wall: purples nearby - in a floor, a rug, a piece of furniture - will read as a clash here, not a complement, since the two colors sit at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Next to it, white trim reads brighter and cooler than it does anywhere else in the house - the gap in light reflectance is what does that, not the trim paint itself. The safest multi-color scheme moves from this dark wall to a noticeably lighter secondary tone, then to a near-white ceiling - three genuinely different depths rather than three shades of the same idea (LRV 5.0, 45 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).
Pairing it with a lighter ceiling keeps the room from feeling closed in, even when the walls themselves are painted all the way to this depth. For a secondary wall, Behr Grape Hyacinth gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 42 LRV points apart).
Higher-sheen finishes will bounce highlights across a wall this dark, which can read as patchy rather than deliberate - matte avoids that.
No other brand has a color within delta-E 2 of this one - a genuinely uncommon shade.
Nearly everything Vista Paint makes is lighter than this: 0 of their 2,742 colors sit below it. Among greens it is one of the strongest: only 1 percent of them carry more colour. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.
Vista Paint lots of Lime sits between warm and cool: its hue angle is 122° in CIE Lab at a chroma of 62, with a yellow-green.
The light reflectance value (LRV) of Vista Paint lots of Lime (AC159) is 5.0, on a scale where 0 is absolute black and 100 is absolute white, which makes it a very dark color.
Measured on the color wheel, Vista Paint lots of Lime pairs with Dutch Boy Blue Royale (VS-9550, complement), Benjamin Moore Lucky Charm Green (2030-30, analogous, warmer), Behr Banana Leaf (HDC-MD-20, analogous, cooler), Behr Grape Hyacinth (M560-3, soft accent).
Vista Paint lots of Lime's hex value is #7FAB37, RGB 127, 171, 55.
Vista Paint lots of Lime is classified as a green, with a yellow-green.
The nearest Pantone TCX color to Vista Paint lots of Lime is 15-0343 TCX Greenery, delta-E 7.13; the nearest RAL Classic is RAL 6018 Yellow green, delta-E 18.11. Neither is an exact match.
| HEX | #7FAB37 |
| RGB | 127, 171, 55 |
| CMYK | 26%, 0%, 68%, 33% |
| HSL | 83°, 51%, 44% |
| HSV | 83°, 68%, 67% |
| CIE Lab | 64.89, -32.63, 52.69 |
| LCh | 64.89, 61.98, 121.8° |
| XYZ | 24, 33.91, 8.89 |
| Pantone (nearest) | 15-0343 TCX Greenery · ΔE 7.13 |
| RAL (nearest) | RAL 6018 Yellow green · ΔE 18.11 |
| 15-0343 TCX Greenery | ΔE 7.13 | |
| RAL 6018 Yellow green | ΔE 18.11 |
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.