Shade Dark sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Tile Blue is the swatch that breaks rank: a single blue that stops the set reading as one note. Shade Dark to Lime Plaster spans 83 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Saturation averages 54 percent, present without shouting, with Clay Tile carrying most of it.
Shade Dark a deep rust or umber, orange's heat banked into something earthy and lived-in.
Clay Tile a citrus-bright orange: enthusiasm, playfulness, an unmistakable call to attention.
Tile Blue is the most trusted color in color psychology: competence, stability, calm, used constantly by institutions that need to be believed.
Citrus Gold reads as optimism and clarity, the fastest color to draw the eye, the hardest to ignore.
Lime Plaster a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
The sun-logic of three thousand years - Cycladic cubes on volcanic caldera, Moroccan riad courtyard cooling, and the Alhambra's geometric water gardens as the mathematical definition of paradise: thick walls, deep shadow, water at the center.
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