Pandora's Purple

A mid-weight violet undertone. In the Vista Paint lineup this is 7143.

At LRV 24.0 it sits where most rooms want a wall: light enough to feel open, dark enough to have a surface. At chroma 10.7 the violet undertone is clear in daylight and softer under lamps.

A dining room or study suits this kind of mid-depth color, where the room is used at different times of day under different light. Warm bulbs will soften it; daylight bulbs push it further cool. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Valspar Silver Dust keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 50 LRV points from this one).

Worth checking before committing to a full wall: yellows and warm gold 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.

Wood tones next to this read darker and richer than they do against a paler wall; it is one of the more dependable effects of putting a light-absorbing color next to anything reflective. The safest multi-color scheme moves from this dark wall to a noticeably lighter secondary tone, then to a near-white ceiling - three genuinely different depths rather than three shades of the same idea (LRV 24.0, 55 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

Sherwin-Williams Gentle Grape (SW 9074) runs close enough - delta-E 1.61 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. Only 1 other-brand color land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual. Matte or low-sheen suits it on walls; higher gloss will exaggerate the undertone.

It is lighter than 23 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.