Deep Structural Steel Painted sets the weight of the palette in neutrality and balance, and Light Aluminum is the swatch that breaks rank: a single blue that stops the set reading as one note. Saturation averages 5 percent, so close to grey that Light Aluminum reads as a colour accent purely by being the least grey thing present. Deep Structural Steel Painted and Dark Structural Steel Painted are close enough in hue and lightness that most people will read them as one colour, which makes them a pair to separate rather than two choices to spend.
Deep Structural Steel Painted is true neutrality, balance and restraint, a color that recedes so the palette's other choices can carry the emotional weight.
Dark Structural Steel Painted is true neutrality, balance and restraint, a color that recedes so the palette's other choices can carry the emotional weight.
Mid Aluminum functions as quiet breathing room, understated, unobtrusive, built to let other colors do the talking.
Light Aluminum a dusty or steel blue, trust read as quiet reliability rather than corporate polish.
Tension Cables functions as quiet breathing room, understated, unobtrusive, built to let other colors do the talking.
Structure and services made visible and celebrated - High-Tech turned buildings inside out, exposing steel trusses, ducts, and circulation in bright industrial colour, from the Pompidou Centre to Lloyd's of London and Foster's HSBC tower.
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