Villa Grove

Light enough to feel airy, colored enough that it still counts as a decision rather than a default. 7691, from Vista Paint.

At this LRV (71.0), a room reads as neither bright-white nor dim - a genuinely middle-of-the-road amount of light comes back off the wall. A chroma of 13.1 is enough to register as a real color choice, without the intensity that would force the rest of a room to match it.

Warm bulbs will soften it; daylight bulbs push it further cool. Holds up across a full room without the visual weight a darker or more saturated color would add. Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse makes a good second wall color here - different enough to read as a real choice, close enough to still feel related (about 19.3 points apart in light reflectance).

By the numbers, Behr Palm Breeze (420E-2) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.76, well under what the eye can separate. 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 77 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.