Wing Man

Saturated enough that everything else in the room answers to it. Vista Paint files it as 0396.

Chroma 27.4 is high enough to dominate a room's palette rather than join it. Best reserved for rooms you pass through or visit rather than ones you spend hours in - the intensity that makes a strong first impression can tire the eye over a full day.

This is a color worth testing in the specific room it is going in - cool colors shift more than warm ones do between north and south walls. LRV 18.0 puts it in the middle of the scale, but saturation, not lightness, is what you will react to.

Depending on the bulb, this can genuinely read as yellow or as orange - it sits right on the border between the two, only 5° apart. 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.

Warm metals - brass, aged gold, unlacquered fixtures - gain a contrast against this that they do not have against a lighter wall; it is a common reason people choose a color this deep in the first place. For layering, pair this with a clearly lighter mid-tone on a secondary wall or cabinetry, and keep the ceiling close to white. The gap between each step should be big enough to see without thinking about it (roughly 18.0 / 52 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

For a secondary wall, PPG Silver Charm gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 27 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.

Switching brands, Dunn-Edwards Peppered Moss (DEA169) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 1.39, near enough for most rooms. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 1 color from other brands come this close.

It is lighter than 16 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.