Peaceful Pond

A color built for commitment, not for blending in. 7487, from Vista Paint.

A chroma of 20.6 is well into the range where the color affects everything nearby - light fixtures, glossy surfaces, even skin tones under it. In a room with plenty of natural light, this can cover more wall area than it could in a dim one, where the same color reads heavier.

South light flatters it. In a north-facing room it can turn cold, so sample that wall first. Light reflectance reads 31.0, though with this much color in it that number is the smaller half of the story.

Worth checking before committing to a full wall: reds and brick tones 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 Go To Gray makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 39 points apart in light reflectance). This is not a color that benefits from shine - the saturation does the work, and a flat finish lets it do that evenly.

Switching brands, Behr Aqua Rapids (M450-5) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 2.11, near enough for most rooms. No other brand has a color within delta-E 2 of this one - a genuinely uncommon shade.

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 K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.