New Foliage

This is a color that decides the room rather than supporting it. Vista Paint's designation for it is 0400.

Chroma 23.1 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.

South light flatters it. In a north-facing room it can turn cold, so sample that wall first. LRV 51.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

In warm light this stays yellow; under cooler, daylight-style bulbs it can slide toward orange. It's close enough to that edge that a sample is worth checking in the room's own lighting, not under a store's. If the room already has blues and cool greys in the floor, a rug, or the furniture, this color will fight it rather than sit well beside it - the two sit at opposite ends of the color spectrum, which is exactly why they clash instead of blend.

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. A natural scheme here moves in three clear steps: this color on the main wall, a noticeably lighter mid-tone for a second wall or built-in, and a near-white on the ceiling. Each jump should be obvious at a glance, not something you have to squint to tell apart (roughly 51.0, 68 and 85 on the light-reflectance scale, for reference).

Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse 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 39.3 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.

Benjamin Moore Burwell Green (CW-445) runs close enough - delta-E 2 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 1 color from other brands come this close.

It is lighter than 54 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.