Gilt Frame sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Nave Dark is the swatch that breaks rank: a single indigo that stops the set reading as one note. Aged Stone and Nave Dark sit on opposite sides of the temperature line, which is the tension the palette runs on and the pair to hold apart. Nave Dark and Clerestory sit 67 points of lightness apart, enough to separate a foreground from a background without forcing it.
Nave Dark a near-black indigo, depth, focus, the color of late-night thought.
Sapphire Glass is the most trusted color in color psychology: competence, stability, calm, used constantly by institutions that need to be believed.
Aged Stone grounds a palette: stability, reliability, the color of wood, soil, and things built to last.
Gilt Frame signals warmth, approachability, and creative energy, friendlier than red, louder than yellow.
Clerestory a burnt or terracotta orange, warmth read through a rustic, sun-worn filter.
The medieval engineering miracle that made stone weightless - pointed arch, flying buttress, and ribbed vault working together to dissolve walls into stained glass at Chartres, and reaching its delirious chromatic limit at Sainte-Chapelle.
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