Stardust Ballroom

Neutral enough to sit under other colors, with a purple cast underneath. Vista Paint files it as 1308.

At chroma 5.4 the purple cast 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 this LRV (64.0), a room reads as neither bright-white nor dim - a genuinely middle-of-the-road amount of light comes back off the wall. Suits both quiet, restful rooms and busier shared spaces, which is most of what makes a neutral a neutral.

For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 26.3 LRV points apart).

Sherwin-Williams Wallflower (SW 6281) matches it closely enough that no one will tell them apart on a wall. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 2 colors from other brands come this close. A satin finish is worth it in a room that needs to be wiped down often, at the cost of showing a bit more of the wall's surface than a flat finish would.

It is lighter than 67 percent of the Vista Paint range. The name is not unique: Dutch Boy DCP-1308 also sells a color called Stardust Ballroom, and it is not the same shade. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.