Sunday Gloves

A pale yellow that still counts as a color on the wall. Vista Paint's designation for it is 0236.

69.0 on the light-reflectance scale puts it in the middle third, which is the part of the scale with the fewest surprises. Chroma 15.4 keeps the yellow present without letting it run the room.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. Light enough for whole-room coverage while still reading as a real color choice rather than a white. Behr Maui Mist 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 335 points apart on the reflectance scale).

If the brand is not fixed, Behr Writers Parchment (N280-2) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.65. 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 74 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.