Warm Concrete sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Module Dark is the swatch that breaks rank: a single yellow that stops the set reading as one note. Module Dark to Play Light spans 78 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Play Light 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.
Module Dark an olive-leaning yellow, cheer pulled toward something more serious.
Brick a dusty taupe-brown, quiet and unassuming.
Warm Concrete a burnt or terracotta orange, warmth read through a rustic, sun-worn filter.
Module a burnt or terracotta orange, warmth read through a rustic, sun-worn filter.
Play Light a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
Aldo van Eyck's orphanage as a city of houses, Hertzberger's Centraal Beheer as a village of workplaces - Structuralism rejected anonymous functionalism to give every user an identifiable place within a legible collective order.
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