Wild Weeds

There is nothing quiet about this one - it is meant to be noticed. Wild Weeds is Vista Paint's 7656.

Chroma 31.9 is high enough to dominate a room's palette rather than join it. On one wall of an otherwise neutral room, this reads as a deliberate choice rather than an overwhelming one.

South light flatters it. In a north-facing room it can turn cold, so sample that wall first. LRV 64.0 puts it in the middle of the scale, but saturation, not lightness, is what you will react to.

This is one of the colors that can change identity with the light - somewhere between green and yellow, and near enough to the line between them (6°) that both readings are fair. If the room already has purples in the floor, a rug, or the furniture, this color will fight it rather than sit well beside it - the two sit at opposite ends of the color spectrum, which is exactly why they clash instead of blend.

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.

For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Abalone gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 26.7 LRV points apart). If the wall needs to be washable, eggshell is the highest sheen worth considering before the color starts looking artificial under light.

Across the other brands, nothing lands within delta-E 2 of this one - there is no easy substitute.

It is lighter than 67 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.