Cross-brand match

Plum Preserve in Sherwin-Williams

Vista Paint 1256 translated into the Sherwin-Williams line

Vista Paint Plum Preserve 1256 on a wall, hex #8275AB
Sherwin-Williams Forget‐Me‐Not SW 6824 on a wall, hex #716998

The closest Sherwin-Williams paint to Vista Paint Plum Preserve (1256) is Forget‐Me‐Not SW 6824, a delta-E of 6.74 away — the closest Sherwin-Williams has, and far enough away that you should sample it before committing.

Forget‐Me‐Not is 5.2 LRV points darker, so the room will read slightly deeper. Undertone reads as violet against violet, at chroma 28.1 and 31.8.

Codes are not transferable between manufacturers and no brand publishes a conversion table, so every figure here is measured from the published hex values rather than taken from a chart.

NEARESTForget‐Me‐NotSW 6824
DISTANCEΔE 6.74CIE Lab
LIGHT REFLECTANCE15.8 against 21.0
HEX#716998against #8275AB

Ranked matches in Sherwin-Williams

closest first
Sherwin-Williams colorΔE LRV Undertone
Forget‐Me‐NotSW 6824 6.74 15.8 violet Compare
ClematisSW 6831 7.4 15.9 violet Compare
GentianSW 6817 9.38 17.5 blue Compare
KismetSW 6830 10.91 29.2 violet Compare
Brave PurpleSW 6823 11.19 28.9 violet Compare
Veri BerriSW 9069 13.3 20.8 purple Compare

Plum Preserve in other brands

same color, different line

Full detail on Plum Preserve