Sun Touched

Strong enough that it sets the palette for the room, not the other way around. 0821 in the Vista Paint range.

Chroma 49.3 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. Ideal for a single accent wall or a small room where you want to commit.

Afternoon sun will push the yellow further warm; if that reads as too much, a cooler bulb in the room can pull it back. LRV 69.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

In warm light this stays orange; under cooler, daylight-style bulbs it can slide toward yellow. It's close enough to that edge that a sample is worth checking in the room's own lighting, not under a store's. 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.

Next to it, white trim reads brighter and cooler than it does anywhere else in the house - the gap in light reflectance is what does that, not the trim paint itself.

Dunn-Edwards First Snow pairs well as a second surface - close enough in feel to belong in the same room, far enough in lightness to read as two distinct walls (about 16.7 points apart on the reflectance scale). Matte suits a color this strong - a glossier sheen would turn every light source in the room into a visible hotspot on the wall.

PPG Firelight (1211-5) runs close enough - delta-E 1.34 - that swapping brands should not change how the room looks. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 2 colors from other brands come this close.

It is lighter than 74 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.