Queen's Rose

This is at the bottom of the scale, where a color stops being a backdrop and the pink sits underneath, felt rather than seen outright. Vista Paint lists it as Queen's Rose (0095).

LRV 9.0 is about as dark as the scale goes, which means every lumen in the room has to come from somewhere other than the walls. A single accent light aimed at this wall will do more to reveal the pink than any amount of ambient room lighting.

This color sits right on the line between red and pink - cooler light nudges it toward pink, warmer light keeps it in red (about 10° apart on the color wheel, for anyone measuring). 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.

Next to it, white trim reads brighter and cooler than it does anywhere else in the house - the gap in light reflectance is what does that, not the trim paint itself. 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 9.0, 47 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

In a hallway or transition space that is not lived in for long stretches, the loss of reflected light matters less than it would in a living room. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Sherwin-Williams Online keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 36.5 LRV points from this one).

A color this deep already reads as dramatic; a low-sheen finish lets the color carry that without competing highlights.

Switching brands, Benjamin Moore Plum Raisin (2082-20) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 1.5, near enough for most rooms. Only 2 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual.

It is lighter than 4 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 442 colors measure within a point of 9.0 - so most brands will have something close. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.