Forum Dark sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Brick Red is the swatch that breaks rank: a single brown that stops the set reading as one note. Forum Dark to Marble spans 80 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Forum 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.
Forum Dark a deep rust or umber, orange's heat banked into something earthy and lived-in.
Brick Red a saturated leather or cognac brown, richness with real presence.
Travertine signals warmth, approachability, and creative energy, friendlier than red, louder than yellow.
Limestone reads as optimism and clarity, the fastest color to draw the eye, the hardest to ignore.
Marble a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
The grammar of the Western built world - column orders, tripartite elevation, and the Parthenon's optical corrections have been the foundation of architectural education from Vitruvius through the Beaux-Arts.
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