Pink Softness

Neither bold nor shy - a pink undertone with enough weight to matter and enough restraint to live with. Vista Paint files it as 0077.

LRV 54.0 - comfortably in the range that suits a whole room rather than one wall. Chroma 13.8 sits in a comfortable middle: present enough to notice, restrained enough to live with.

Bedrooms and living rooms, where it is seen in lamplight as much as daylight. The pink undertone leans into warm light rather than fighting it, so this is a forgiving choice under standard incandescent or warm-LED bulbs. For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 36.3 LRV points apart).

This is one of the colors that can change identity with the light - somewhere between red and pink, and near enough to the line between them (7°) that both readings are fair. This color and greens don't get along in the same room - they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, so pairing them tends to feel like tension rather than contrast.

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. If the room needs more than one wall color, keep the steps far apart: this color, then something clearly lighter for a second surface, then a bright white above. Two similar tones just look like a mismatch; three distinct ones read as a plan (about 54.0 to 70 to 85 in LRV terms).

By the numbers, Dunn-Edwards Pencil Eraser (DE6024) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.73, well under what the eye can separate. Only 2 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual. 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 C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.