Fuscia Fizz
The dusty magenta the name oversells, reviewed honestly: where it turns velvety rose, the light that turns it bruise-violet, and what to pick instead.
Jessica has spec'd whites and neutrals for more than 300 rooms and keeps a sample wall of painted drawdowns in her studio. Every color review is checked against real reader rooms in the comments and re-tested when a formula changes. About the testing process →
- 1Nocturne Shade5
- 2Blue Nova17
- 3Fuscia Fizz23
- 4Hazy Lilac29
- 5Wisteria48
The Fast Verdict
Fuscia Fizz is a dusty mid-depth magenta with a cool violet cast — not the soda-bright fuchsia the name telegraphs. At LRV 23 it has enough body to drench a powder room or carry one feature wall, and under 2700K lamps it turns velvety rose. In a north room on cool LEDs it goes bruise-purple. Buy it for a small, warm, committed space; do not buy it hoping the whole house will fizz.
Powder rooms and vanities · one feature wall or interior door · lamplit bedrooms that can take color · anyone who wants mauve with the pink turned up
You wanted soda-bright fuchsia · you need four walls of a main living room · honey oak or golden beige floors · cool white LEDs in a north-facing room
- Dusty magenta with real chroma — mauve that still reads pink
- Powder rooms and vanities look finished, not themed
- Turns velvety rose under 2700K lamps
- Deep enough (LRV 23) to hold its color in bright rooms
- One door or one wall carries more personality than a whole greige floor
- The name promises fizz; the paint is dusty, not neon
- Fights honey oak, golden beige, and everything yellow-warm
- Cool north light and cool LEDs turn it bruise-violet
- Too much color for a whole main floor — real resale risk
What Color Is Fuscia Fizz, Really?
A dusty pink-purple on a mauve base — and the name is the first thing to ignore. Fuscia Fizz (the Color Guild spelling, missing the h) sounds like a neon soda. Independent matches of 1151 describe a medium-depth pink-magenta with a cool violet cast: subdued next to a true fuchsia, saturated enough that nobody will call it gray. That gap between the fizzy name and the dusty paint is the whole review. You are not buying bubblegum. You are buying a mid-chroma rose-magenta that behaves more like a grown mauve with the pink left in.
At LRV 23 it is a genuine mid-to-deep tone, a step darker than Benjamin Moore Sleepy Hollow (LRV 28) and a step lighter than Cinnamon Slate (LRV 19). That depth is what makes a small room work and a big room risky: a paler blush washes out, but Fuscia Fizz holds its color in daylight and then sinks toward plum-rose after dark. Plan for the wall to read a step deeper and more violet than the chip — every muted magenta does this, and it is the number-one surprise when the sample leaves the card.
Undertone in one line: magenta first, cool violet second — never coral, never gray. If your sample reads bruise-purple, the light is cold. If it reads candy-pink, that is west sun or 2700K lamps pulling the rose. Both versions are the same paint being honest about the room.
Where It Shines
This color is built for a room you can finish in a weekend. Drench a powder room and it reads custom; put it on a vanity, an interior door, or one headboard wall and it looks like a decision, not a theme. Give it cream linen, walnut, unlacquered brass and 2700K lamps, and the dusty magenta goes velvety instead of loud. South light keeps the pink honest. The job is a contained, warm space — not a whole floor plan.
Where It Fails
Almost every regret story about a color this saturated follows one of three scripts, and all three are visible before the first coat. None of them are the paint's fault — but if your room matches one, this is not your magenta, and a bigger sample will only confirm it.
North light is gray and stingy. It strips the rose out of Fuscia Fizz and leaves the cool violet exposed — walls that looked dusty-pink on the chip read bruise-purple on four walls. Cool white LEDs finish the job. The fix is warmth: south or west light, or 2700K lamps as part of the paint job. If the room is dim and you refuse lamps, pick a color that does not depend on the red.
Yellow-orange sits opposite this magenta on the wheel, so golden oak floors, orange-stained trim and builder-beige carpet all amp the purple while the walls push the floor toward pumpkin. Both sides lose. Fuscia Fizz needs walnut, espresso, pale white oak, or a large rug between it and anything honey-gold.
The name oversells chroma. This is not a soda-bright fuchsia and it is not a quiet mauve you can run around an open plan. At LRV 23 with this much pink, a whole living room swallows the furniture and dates the house. Keep it to a powder room, a vanity, a door, or one feature wall. If you wanted neon, this is the wrong deck; if you wanted grayed atmosphere, look at Sleepy Hollow.
Room by Room
Small, closed, and allowed to be a little extra: this is the room Fuscia Fizz was mixed for. Drench all four walls in matte or eggshell, keep White Dove on the trim, and let brass and a marble or stone top do the rest. At LRV 23 the color holds in a windowless room as long as the bulbs are warm.
Under 2700K light it turns velvety rose and actually feels restful, not loud. Matte hides texture and deepens the color; cream or white bedding, not beige. If the bedroom faces north and stays dim, this is the wrong magenta — the walls will go bruise before they go cozy.
Satin Fuscia Fizz on a bathroom vanity or a set of interior doors under cream walls is a weekend project that looks like a design fee. You get the magenta without betting four walls on it. Cabinet enamel, not wall paint, on anything that gets hands.
A headboard wall, a dining alcove, the wall you see from the entry: one plane of this color is plenty. Pair it with White Dove or Swiss Coffee on the remaining walls so the magenta reads as a decision. Painting two accent walls in the same room is how it starts to feel themed.
Deeper and dustier than a typical teen pink, which is the point — it looks grown without going gray. One wall plus White Dove on the rest, or the whole small bedroom if the kid is all-in. Cool LEDs and a north window will still turn it bruise; warm lamps are not optional.
Four walls of a main living room at this chroma is a commitment most furniture loses. Open plans have to negotiate with kitchen wood and whatever the next room wears, and Fuscia Fizz does not negotiate. Full outdoor sun punches the pink toward loud magenta from the street; skip the siding, and skip the front door unless you want the house to announce itself from the corner.
Your Light Is the Risk
Warm daylight keeps the rose visible so it reads dusty magenta, not bruise. This is the honest chip — sample here first.
Cool gray daylight strips the pink and leaves a flat violet-bruise. Fine if you half-wanted purple; disappointing if you wanted rose.
Cooler and more violet in the morning; late-day sun flushes it distinctly pink for an hour. Most people love the shift; if pink is the dealbreaker, check the wall at 6pm.
2700K lamps pull velvety rose-magenta — the version that makes a bedroom work. Cool LEDs leave dusty lilac-gray. Swap the bulbs before you blame the paint.
Most complaints about Fuscia Fizz are a light mismatch. Upload a photo of your actual room and see it on your walls — then ask for the same wall in north light or evening lamps before you buy a single sample.
Need It From Another Brand?
Any paint counter can custom-tint Kompozit 1151 directly. If you would rather stay in one brand's own deck, these are the closest stock matches, measured as ΔE2000. Under 2 is a difference you will not see on the wall.
| Brand | Closest color | ΔE | LRV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Moore | Melrose Pink1363 · Benjamin Moore | 2.6 | 26 | Color page → |
| Valspar | So Long Shadow1004-3B · Valspar | 1.8 | 22.9 | Color page → |
| Glidden | Antique Fuchsia10RR 21/325 · Glidden | 3.1 | 21 | Color page → |
| Dutch Boy | Fizzleberry146-6DB · Dutch Boy | 2.5 | 22 | Color page → |
| Dunn-Edwards | First PlumDE5018 · Dunn-Edwards | 2.5 | 23 | Color page → |
| Farrow & Ball | RangwaliNO. 296 · Farrow & Ball | 4.6 | 25 | Color page → |
Similar Kompozit Colors
The nearest shades to Fuscia Fizz within Kompozit's own range, ranked by perceptual color distance — useful when you want the same look a touch lighter, darker, or warmer.
WCAG 2.1: AA is 4.5 : 1 for normal text, 3 : 1 for large text, AAA is 7 : 1.
Fuscia Fizz vs the Colors You're Also Considering
Every Fuscia Fizz sample board has the same rivals on it. The numbers show the real lightness gap — then it comes down to which risk you would rather live with.
Pick this when you want the same dusty-purple idea with the pink turned up so nobody calls it gray.
Benjamin Moore 1454 · LRV 28Sleepy HollowPick this if you want the grayed, grown-up mauve that can pass as atmosphere — purple without the fizz.
Pick this when the wall should actually read magenta, not a dusty hint of it.
Sherwin-Williams SW 71 · LRV 37OrchidPick this if you want pink that barely announces itself — Orchid is the pink you paint when you don't want it to look pink.
Fuscia Fizz Coordinating Colors
The rule for coordinating with Fuscia Fizz: warm whites, muted sage, and one near-black — and keep everything yellow at arm's length. It pairs with cream far better than with beige, loves walnut and brass, and needs a quieter neighbor so the magenta does not have to shout in every direction. These are the partners that keep a room from going themed:
A Shared Palette Number, Not a Famous Paint
Fuscia Fizz is Color Guild number 1151 — a professional palette color that shows up under the same misspelled name at independents — not a viral millennial-pink, not a Color of the Year, and not a color with a stack of Houzz threads. Kompozit carries the number in its own deck. That is not a knock; it is a sampling warning. There is no crowd-sourced light diary for 1151. Your north window and your bulbs are the review.
Treat the name as marketing, not a swatch. Fuscia is the industry spelling of fuchsia, and Fizz is wishful chroma. The paint is a dusty mid-depth magenta. If you arrived here because the name sounded fun, look at the chip in the room at night before you buy a gallon. Honest obscurity is useful: nobody is copying a celebrity powder room. You are just picking a saturated mauve and living with it.
Fuscia Fizz With Wood Tones and Floors
This decision gets made at the floor, not the paint store. Walnut and espresso are the color's best friends — the dark red-brown makes the magenta read dusty and deliberate instead of candy. Pale white oak and gray-washed floors are safe and keep the room from going Victorian. Cream carpet is fine; true gray carpet is fine.
The one honest no is golden: honey oak floors, orange-stained trim, yellow-beige carpet. Yellow-orange sits opposite this magenta, so each side exaggerates the other — the floor reads more orange, the walls read more purple, and no extra coat fixes geometry. If the golden floor is staying, put a large rug down or choose Sleepy Hollow and keep the mood without as much pink in the fight.
Metals are the easy part: unlacquered brass, antique bronze, and matte black all work. Polished chrome is the one that leans cold and makes the violet show up first.
Three Ready Palettes Built on Fuscia Fizz
A color is never alone on the wall. These are complete combinations in the 60-30-10 pattern, with the reason each one holds together. Every one opens in the visualizer.
A closed powder room is where this chroma pays off: Fuscia Fizz on every wall, White Dove to keep the edges soft, Wrought Iron as one near-black note so the scheme reads deliberate. Brass hardware and a stone top finish it. A stark bright trim white would make the walls look dusty by comparison.
Try this palette in your roomMatte magenta walls, White Dove woodwork, and First Light next door so the house does not slam from dusty rose into a hard white. First Light behaves like a warm off-white until the light changes — sample the handoff at night, because both colors pink up under 2700K lamps.
Try this palette in your roomMuted sage and dusty magenta is the pairing that keeps Fuscia Fizz from taking over the floor plan. Home Body passes for a warm neutral until the light says otherwise, so sample it next to 1151 in the actual rooms — in good light you get sage plus one magenta door; in cool light both can shift and the scheme falls apart.
Try this palette in your roomFuscia Fizz FAQ
Is Fuscia Fizz pink or purple?
Both, on purpose. It is a dusty magenta: pink first, cool violet second. In warm light it reads rose; in cool light it reads purple. Nobody will call it gray, and nobody who wanted soda-bright fuchsia will think they got it. If you need a color that stays in one camp, this is the wrong chip.
What trim white goes with Fuscia Fizz?
A warm, soft white — White Dove is the default, Swiss Coffee if you want a creamier vintage pairing (knowing Swiss Coffee warms up further in yellow light). A stark bright white like Chantilly Lace makes the walls look dusty and tired against the crisp edge. Semi-gloss on the trim, matte or eggshell on the walls.
Is it good for a bedroom?
Yes, if the room has warm lamps and you actually want color at night. Matte finish, 2700K bulbs, cream or white bedding. Skip it in a north-facing bedroom that runs on cool LEDs — that is the bruise-violet version, and it does not sleep well.
Does Fuscia Fizz work with oak floors?
Depends on the oak. Walnut, espresso, and pale unstained white oak are excellent. Golden honey oak is the clash: yellow-orange is this magenta's complement, so the floor goes more orange and the walls go more purple. A large rug helps; wall-to-wall honey tones need a different color.
Can I paint a whole living room this color?
You can. You should not. At LRV 23 with this much chroma, four main-floor walls swallow the furniture and lock the house to a magenta mood. Use it on a powder room, a vanity, an interior door, or one feature wall. If you want dusty purple on a bigger room, Sleepy Hollow is the grown-up, grayer version of the same idea.
Will it look like bright fuchsia on the wall?
No. The name oversells it. Independent matches of 1151 call it a medium-depth pink-magenta with a cool violet cast — dusty, not neon. If you are shopping for soda-pop fuchsia, keep walking. If you want mauve with the pink left in, the chip is more honest than the name.
Have you painted with Fuscia Fizz?
Rate it — one tap helps the next reader decide.
Ask a Question