Every swatch belongs to the same family, Lobby Dark included, so trust, stability, calm run through the palette with nothing to argue against them. Lobby Dark to Open Sky spans 86 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Open Sky is the loudest thing in the set and it is still cool, so every accent the palette offers recedes rather than advances.
Lobby Dark a deep navy or midnight blue, trust deepened into authority and gravity.
Glass Blue is the most trusted color in color psychology: competence, stability, calm, used constantly by institutions that need to be believed.
Sky Reflect is the most trusted color in color psychology: competence, stability, calm, used constantly by institutions that need to be believed.
Tower Glass is the most trusted color in color psychology: competence, stability, calm, used constantly by institutions that need to be believed.
Open Sky a pale sky blue, calm without weight, open, breathable, unguarded.
The glass tower as global default - after Johnson and Hitchcock's 1932 exhibition, Mies's steel skeleton and curtain wall became the template for every postwar corporate headquarters from New York to Tokyo to São Paulo.
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