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Saturated enough that everything else in the room answers to it. Vista Paint files it as 1066.

Chroma 45.4 is high enough to dominate a room's palette rather than join it. Best reserved for rooms you pass through or visit rather than ones you spend hours in - the intensity that makes a strong first impression can tire the eye over a full day.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. LRV 33.0 puts it in the middle of the scale, but saturation, not lightness, is what you will react to.

Depending on the bulb, this can genuinely read as red or as orange - it sits right on the border between the two, only 5° apart. This color and blues and cool greys 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.

The lighter the trim beside this, the more it will seem to glow - a side effect of the light-reflectance gap rather than anything special about the trim color. 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 33.0 to 59 to 85 in LRV terms).

For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Distant Horizon gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 59.7 LRV points apart). If the wall needs to be washable, eggshell is the highest sheen worth considering before the color starts looking artificial under light.

No other brand has a color within delta-E 2 of this one - a genuinely uncommon shade.

It is lighter than 32 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.