It is dark enough that the room, not the paint, becomes the thing you notice - though the blue cast keeps it from reading as flat black. 7229, from Vista Paint.
With an LRV this low (7.0), a room relies entirely on its fixtures; the paint gives nothing back. In dim, ambient light this reads as a flat, undifferentiated dark; it takes a direct light source for the blue cast to surface at all.
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. A natural scheme here moves in three clear steps: this color on the main wall, a noticeably lighter mid-tone for a second wall or built-in, and a near-white on the ceiling. Each jump should be obvious at a glance, not something you have to squint to tell apart (roughly 7.0, 46 and 85 on the light-reflectance scale, for reference).
On the wall opposite the room's main window, this catches the most daylight available and is the one wall where the color reads true rather than flat. Vista Paint Diamond Heights makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 29 points apart in light reflectance).
Eggshell can work if the wall is in excellent condition, but matte is the more forgiving default for a color at the bottom of the scale.
Dunn-Edwards Black Pearl (DEA186) runs close enough - delta-E 1.39 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 1 color from other brands come this close.
Nearly everything Vista Paint makes is lighter than this: 45 of their 2,742 colors sit below it. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.
Vista Paint Pantry Plum is a cool color: its hue angle is 275° in CIE Lab at a chroma of 5.8, with a blue cast.
The light reflectance value (LRV) of Vista Paint Pantry Plum (7229) is 7.0, on a scale where 0 is absolute black and 100 is absolute white, which makes it a very dark color.
Measured on the color wheel, Vista Paint Pantry Plum pairs with Vista Paint Nightfall (0340, complement), Behr Voodoo (S570-7, analogous, warmer), Benjamin Moore Stonecutter (2135-20, analogous, cooler), Vista Paint Diamond Heights (8296, soft accent).
Vista Paint Pantry Plum's hex value is #4C5059, RGB 76, 80, 89.
Vista Paint Pantry Plum is classified as a black, with a blue cast.
The nearest Pantone TCX color to Vista Paint Pantry Plum is 19-4215 TCX Turbulence, delta-E 2.14; the nearest RAL Classic is RAL 7015 Slate grey, delta-E 3.08.
The closest cross-brand match to Vista Paint Pantry Plum is Dunn-Edwards Black Pearl (DEA186), at a delta-E of 1.39.
| HEX | #4C5059 |
| RGB | 76, 80, 89 |
| CMYK | 15%, 10%, 0%, 65% |
| HSL | 222°, 8%, 32% |
| HSV | 222°, 15%, 35% |
| CIE Lab | 33.97, 0.5, -5.82 |
| LCh | 33.97, 5.84, 274.9° |
| XYZ | 7.65, 7.99, 10.59 |
| Pantone (nearest) | 19-4215 TCX Turbulence · ΔE 2.14 |
| RAL (nearest) | RAL 7015 Slate grey · ΔE 3.08 |
| 19-4215 TCX Turbulence | ΔE 2.14 | |
| 19-3910 TCX Iron Gate | ΔE 2.62 | |
| 19-4220 TCX Dark Slate | ΔE 2.75 | |
| RAL 7015 Slate grey | ΔE 3.08 | |
| RAL 7024 Graphite grey | ΔE 3.19 |
Pantone TCX and RAL Classic are physical standards; these are their published sRGB approximations, so check a fan deck before specifying. Pantone® and RAL are trademarks of their respective owners.
Shades mix the color toward black, tints toward white. Click any step to find the paint colors closest to it.