Lobby Dark sets the weight of the palette in stability and reliability, and Postmodern Salmon is the swatch that breaks rank: a single red that stops the set reading as one note. Postmodern Salmon is the loudest thing in the set and every swatch beside it is warm too, which gives the palette no way to cool a page down and no colour to rest an eye on. Lobby Dark and Stone sit 67 points of lightness apart, enough to separate a foreground from a background without forcing it.
Lobby Dark a near-black espresso brown, weight and gravity without going fully neutral.
Granite a dusty taupe-brown, quiet and unassuming.
Pink Granite a burnt or terracotta orange, warmth read through a rustic, sun-worn filter.
Stone signals warmth, approachability, and creative energy, friendlier than red, louder than yellow.
Postmodern Salmon carries urgency and appetite, the color the eye finds first.
Irony, quotation, and ornament returned - Venturi told architects to learn from Las Vegas, Johnson put a Chippendale top on a skyscraper, and Graves painted Portland's city hall in peach and blue.
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