Monk's Cloth

This is the kind of yellow undertone that works in more rooms than it does not, which is rarer than it sounds. In the Vista Paint lineup this is 0220.

At LRV 15.0 it sits where most rooms want a wall: light enough to feel open, dark enough to have a surface. At chroma 9.4 the yellow undertone is clear in daylight and softer under lamps.

Bedrooms and living rooms, where it is seen in lamplight as much as daylight. In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Dunn-Edwards Covered in Platinum keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 34 LRV points from this one).

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.

Anything pale placed against this wall will look paler than it is; anything warm-metal will look warmer. Neither is an illusion the color plays deliberately - it is simple contrast, but worth planning rather than discovering. 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 15.0 to 50 to 85 in LRV terms).

Benjamin Moore Dash of Pepper (1554) runs close enough - delta-E 1.04 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. 4 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 12 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.