New Day Sky

Strong enough that it sets the palette for the room, not the other way around. 7410 in the Vista Paint range.

Chroma 20.6 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. 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. LRV 62.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

Worth checking before committing to a full wall: reds and brick tones 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.

Warm metals - brass, aged gold, unlacquered fixtures - gain a contrast against this that they do not have against a lighter wall; it is a common reason people choose a color this deep in the first place.

Behr First Blush 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 24 points apart on the reflectance scale). Matte suits a color this strong - a glossier sheen would turn every light source in the room into a visible hotspot on the wall.

Behr Cool Water Lake (P480-3) runs close enough - delta-E 1.5 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. Only 2 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual.

It is lighter than 65 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.