Peace of Mind

Strong enough that it sets the palette for the room, not the other way around. 1004 in the Vista Paint range.

Chroma 32.7 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. A powder room or a nook is often the right scale for a color this strong - enough impact without living with it in every sightline.

Warm bulbs make it warmer still; daylight bulbs cool it back toward neutral. LRV 31.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

Depending on the bulb, this can genuinely read as orange or as red - it sits right on the border between the two, only 9° 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.

Warm metals - brass, aged gold, unlacquered fixtures - gain a contrast against this that they do not have against a lighter wall; it is a common reason people choose a color this deep in the first place. 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 31.0, 58 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

PPG January Dawn 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 44 points apart on the reflectance scale). Matte suits a color this strong - a glossier sheen would turn every light source in the room into a visible hotspot on the wall.

Switching brands, PPG Hitching Post (1070-5) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 1.7, near enough for most rooms. Only 1 other-brand color land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual.

It is lighter than 28 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 543 colors measure within a point of 31.0 - so most brands will have something close. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.