Tinkerbell Trail

This is a statement first and a wall color second. Vista Paint lists it as Tinkerbell Trail (7955).

At chroma 21.3 it will not sit quietly next to another strong color. Used across a whole room it needs restraint in the decor - furniture and textiles that stay quiet so the wall can carry the color.

It holds up in a north-facing room, which is where warmth is usually missing. 82.0 on the light-reflectance scale is unremarkable on its own; the chroma is what actually drives how this color behaves.

This color and blues and cool greys don't get along in the same room - they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, so pairing them tends to feel like tension rather than contrast.

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.

A flatter finish keeps this much color from creating harsh reflections.

If the brand is not fixed, Behr Frosted Lemon (330A-2) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.73. 5 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one - a well-populated part of the spectrum with several near-equivalents to choose from.

It is lighter than 88 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.