Numero Uno

Filed as neutral, carried by a yellow-green cast that shows more in a large room than on a small chip. Vista Paint lists it as Numero Uno (0439).

A chroma of 3.8 is low enough to read as neutral in most light, but the yellow-green cast still shifts what the eye calls it. The yellow-green cast is more noticeable under cool, daylight-balanced bulbs than under standard warm ones, which tend to mute it.

At this LRV (78.0), a room reads as neither bright-white nor dim - a genuinely middle-of-the-road amount of light comes back off the wall. Suits both quiet, restful rooms and busier shared spaces, which is most of what makes a neutral a neutral.

If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 12.3 LRV points from this one).

If the brand is not fixed, Behr Canyon Wind (BL-W12) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.64. This is not a rare shade: 7 colors from other brands sit within delta-E 2 of it. Matte holds the color truest; a subtle sheen will lift it half a shade under lamps.

It is lighter than 84 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.