Sacred Spring

It has just enough cool blue-gray to have a personality, and just little enough to stay out of the way. Sacred Spring is Vista Paint's 0510.

At chroma 1.5 the cool blue-gray shows up against a neutral background and disappears against anything with stronger colour. This is a color worth testing in the specific room it is going in - cool colors shift more than warm ones do between north and south walls.

At LRV 60.0 it sits where most rooms want a wall: light enough to feel open, dark enough to have a surface. Works as a backdrop for artwork, furniture, or anything else in the room that is meant to stand out more than the walls do.

For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 30.3 LRV points apart).

Sherwin-Williams Evening Shadow (SW 7662) matches it closely enough that no one will tell them apart on a wall. 5 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one - a well-populated part of the spectrum with several near-equivalents to choose from. Matte holds the color truest; a subtle sheen will lift it half a shade under lamps.

It is lighter than 65 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.