Core Dark sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and CLT Edge is the swatch that breaks rank: a single brown that stops the set reading as one note. Core Dark to Natural Light spans 76 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Core Dark 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.
Core Dark a deep rust or umber, orange's heat banked into something earthy and lived-in.
CLT Edge grounds a palette: stability, reliability, the color of wood, soil, and things built to last.
Timber Face signals warmth, approachability, and creative energy, friendlier than red, louder than yellow.
Pale Grain reads as optimism and clarity, the fastest color to draw the eye, the hardest to ignore.
Natural Light a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
Architecture as ecological act - passive solar section, cross-ventilated plan, mass timber carbon lock, living roof hydrology, and the discipline of measuring every decision against planetary budget rather than aesthetic preference.
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