Spring Cheer

It has enough pink to be read as a color, and enough depth to hold a wall. Vista Paint lists it as Spring Cheer (8105).

At this LRV (45.0), a room reads as neither bright-white nor dim - a genuinely middle-of-the-road amount of light comes back off the wall. At chroma 15.9 the pink is clear in daylight and softer under lamps.

Works as a whole-room color in spaces that are lived in rather than passed through, where its depth has time to register. The pink leans into warm light rather than fighting it, so this is a forgiving choice under standard incandescent or warm-LED bulbs. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 45.3 LRV points from this one).

Depending on the bulb, this can genuinely read as red or as pink - it sits right on the border between the two, only 10° apart. If the room already has blues and cool greys in the floor, a rug, or the furniture, this color will fight it rather than sit well beside it - the two sit at opposite ends of the color spectrum, which is exactly why they clash instead of blend.

Warm metals - brass, aged gold, unlacquered fixtures - gain a contrast against this that they do not have against a lighter wall; it is a common reason people choose a color this deep in the first place. A natural scheme here moves in three clear steps: this color on the main wall, a noticeably lighter mid-tone for a second wall or built-in, and a near-white on the ceiling. Each jump should be obvious at a glance, not something you have to squint to tell apart (roughly 45.0, 65 and 85 on the light-reflectance scale, for reference).

For anyone tied to a different brand, Behr Ballet Rose (S130-3) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 1.37. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 1 color from other brands come this close. Matte holds the color truest; a subtle sheen will lift it half a shade under lamps.

It is lighter than 46 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.