Rotunda Gold

A pale yellow that still counts as a color on the wall. Vista Paint's designation for it is 0895.

At this LRV (76.0), a room reads as neither bright-white nor dim - a genuinely middle-of-the-road amount of light comes back off the wall. Chroma 18.7 keeps the yellow present without letting it run the room.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. Light enough for whole-room coverage while still reading as a real color choice rather than a white. Dunn-Edwards Boysenberry Shadow 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 13.6 points apart on the reflectance scale).

Behr Cracked Wheat (320E-2) matches it closely enough that no one will tell them apart on a wall. This color reads consistently across most finishes, so the choice can come down to durability needs rather than how it changes the color.

It is lighter than 80 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.