Outline sets the weight of the palette in authority and sophistication, and Primary Red is the swatch that breaks rank: a single red that stops the set reading as one note. Outline to Paper White spans 100 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Primary Red and Primary Blue sit on opposite sides of the temperature line, which is the tension the palette runs on and the pair to hold apart.
Outline reads as pure authority: sophistication, power, and the visual weight that makes everything placed near it feel more serious.
Primary Red reads as pure adrenaline: alarm, desire, the color of things that move fast.
Primary Blue a saturated ultraviolet-blue: intensity with a mystical, slightly electric edge.
Primary Yellow an electric, high-visibility yellow: caution and euphoria share the same wavelength here.
Paper White reads as purity and openness, the color of empty space, clarity, and things left deliberately unresolved.
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