Yarmouth Oyster

A wash of yellow over a mostly-light base, which is a harder balance to hit than it sounds. Yarmouth Oyster is Vista Paint's H0105.

Light reflectance measures 61.0, which is enough to keep a room bright without bouncing light around. Chroma 14.6 sits in a comfortable middle: present enough to notice, restrained enough to live with.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. A good fit for bedrooms and nurseries, where softness matters more than intensity. For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 29.3 LRV points apart).

By the numbers, Behr Parachute Silk (UL160-16) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.59, 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 65 percent of the Vista Paint range. Light reflectance this exact is unusual: 1 color in the whole catalog measure within a point of 61.0. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.