Dark Wax sets the weight of the palette in urgency and appetite, and Lamp Light is the swatch that breaks rank: a single yellow that stops the set reading as one note. Dark Wax to Lamp Light spans 70 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Saturation averages 71 percent with Warm Glow at the top, which is loud enough that the palette will fight anything else on the page.
Dark Wax a deep oxblood or garnet, red aged into authority rather than warning.
Hot Orange reads as pure adrenaline: alarm, desire, the color of things that move fast.
Amber Blob a citrus-bright orange: enthusiasm, playfulness, an unmistakable call to attention.
Warm Glow a citrus-bright orange: enthusiasm, playfulness, an unmistakable call to attention.
Lamp Light an electric, high-visibility yellow: caution and euphoria share the same wavelength here.
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