October Bounty

This is a color that decides the room rather than supporting it. Vista Paint's designation for it is 0252.

Chroma 20.8 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. Ideal for a single accent wall or a small room where you want to commit.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. LRV 61.0 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: 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.

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.

Behr Maui Mist 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 343 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.

For anyone tied to a different brand, Benjamin Moore Silver Gray (ES-70) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 1.15. 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. Light reflectance this exact is unusual: 1 color in the whole catalog measure within a point of 61.0. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.