Pale Pansy

Neutral enough to sit under other colors, with a cool violet-gray underneath. Vista Paint files it as 7155.

A chroma of 3.6 is low enough to read as neutral in most light, but the cool violet-gray still shifts what the eye calls it. 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.

77.0 on the light-reflectance scale puts it in the middle third, which is the part of the scale with the fewest surprises. Open-plan walls, hallways, anywhere the color has to work in several exposures at once.

For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 13.3 LRV points apart).

By the numbers, PPG Iris Isle (1248-2) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.88, well under what the eye can separate. 4 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one - a well-populated part of the spectrum with several near-equivalents to choose from. Matte or low-sheen suits it on walls; higher gloss will exaggerate the undertone.

It is lighter than 83 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.