Parma

A mid-weight red. Vista Paint's designation for it is 8642.

54.0 on the light-reflectance scale puts it in the middle third, which is the part of the scale with the fewest surprises. Chroma 14.8 keeps the red present without letting it run the room.

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 make it warmer still; daylight bulbs cool it back toward neutral. 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 350 points apart on the reflectance scale).

Depending on the bulb, this can genuinely read as red or as orange - it sits right on the border between the two, only 2° apart. 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.

Anything pale placed against this wall will look paler than it is; anything warm-metal will look warmer. Neither is an illusion the color plays deliberately - it is simple contrast, but worth planning rather than discovering. 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 54.0, 70 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

If the brand is not fixed, Dunn-Edwards Muddy Rose (DE6087) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.88. 3 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. Eggshell is a common middle ground here - enough durability for a lived-in room without the sheen that would draw attention to wall imperfections.

It is lighter than 58 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.