Maple

There is no reading this as a background color. In the Vista Paint lineup this is H0126.

At chroma 22.9 it will not sit quietly next to another strong color. Used across a whole room it needs restraint in the decor - furniture and textiles that stay quiet so the wall can carry the color.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. 30.0 on the light-reflectance scale is unremarkable on its own; the chroma is what actually drives how this color behaves.

Worth checking before committing to a full wall: blues and cool greys 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 30.0, 58 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, PPG Moon Lily keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 49 LRV points from this one). A flatter finish keeps this much color from creating harsh reflections.

By the numbers, Behr Poncho (S240-5) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.99, well under what the eye can separate. Only 2 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual.

It is lighter than 27 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 581 colors measure within a point of 30.0 - so most brands will have something close. The name is not unique: Dutch Boy D-6784 also sells a color called Maple, and it is not the same shade. Among tans it is one of the strongest: only 2 percent of them carry more colour. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.