Shooting Star

A color with enough presence that "accent" is really the only honest use for it. Vista Paint catalogs it as Shooting Star, 1044.

A chroma of 32.3 is well into the range where the color affects everything nearby - light fixtures, glossy surfaces, even skin tones under it. In a room with plenty of natural light, this can cover more wall area than it could in a dim one, where the same color reads heavier.

The red leans into warm light rather than fighting it, so this is a forgiving choice under standard incandescent or warm-LED bulbs. Light reflectance reads 59.0, though with this much color in it that number is the smaller half of the story.

Not quite orange, not quite red - this sits right where the two meet, so the room's own lighting ends up deciding which one you actually see. Rooms already built around blues and cool greys are the hardest fit for this color - the two are opposites, and opposites next to each other rarely feel calm.

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. For layering, pair this with a clearly lighter mid-tone on a secondary wall or cabinetry, and keep the ceiling close to white. The gap between each step should be big enough to see without thinking about it (roughly 59.0 / 72 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

Dunn-Edwards Clear Skies makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 31.8 points apart in light reflectance). This is not a color that benefits from shine - the saturation does the work, and a flat finish lets it do that evenly.

Across the other brands, nothing lands within delta-E 2 of this one - there is no easy substitute.

It is lighter than 63 percent of the Vista Paint range. The name is not unique: Benjamin Moore 304 and PPG 1154-1 also sell a color called Shooting Star, and it is not the same shade. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.