On the Nile

Saturated enough that everything else in the room answers to it. Vista Paint files it as 0710.

Chroma 26.4 is high enough to dominate a room's palette rather than join it. On one wall of an otherwise neutral room, this reads as a deliberate choice rather than an overwhelming one.

South light flatters it. In a north-facing room it can turn cold, so sample that wall first. LRV 24.0 puts it in the middle of the scale, but saturation, not lightness, is what you will react to.

Rooms already built around pinks and warm blush tones are the hardest fit for this color - the two are opposites, and opposites next to each other rarely feel calm.

Next to it, white trim reads brighter and cooler than it does anywhere else in the house - the gap in light reflectance is what does that, not the trim paint itself. For layering, pair this with a clearly lighter mid-tone on a secondary wall or cabinetry, and keep the ceiling close to white. The gap between each step should be big enough to see without thinking about it (roughly 24.0 / 55 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Dangerous Robot gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 32.7 LRV points apart). If the wall needs to be washable, eggshell is the highest sheen worth considering before the color starts looking artificial under light.

Across the other brands, nothing lands within delta-E 2 of this one - there is no easy substitute.

It is lighter than 23 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.