Teal Dark sets the weight of the palette in trust and stability, and Cream Band is the swatch that breaks rank: a single yellow that stops the set reading as one note. Terracotta and Garland Gold are close enough in hue and lightness that most people will read them as one colour, which makes them a pair to separate rather than two choices to spend. Saturation averages 51 percent, present without shouting, with Portland Teal carrying most of it.
Teal Dark a deep navy or midnight blue, trust deepened into authority and gravity.
Portland Teal is the most trusted color in color psychology: competence, stability, calm, used constantly by institutions that need to be believed.
Terracotta signals warmth, approachability, and creative energy, friendlier than red, louder than yellow.
Cream Band reads as optimism and clarity, the fastest color to draw the eye, the hardest to ignore.
Garland Gold signals warmth, approachability, and creative energy, friendlier than red, louder than yellow.
Irony, quotation, and ornament returned - Venturi told architects to learn from Las Vegas, Johnson put a Chippendale top on a skyscraper, and Graves painted Portland's city hall in peach and blue.
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