Aged Steel sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Engine Black is the swatch that breaks rank: a single charcoal that stops the set reading as one note. Engine Black to Exhibition White spans 82 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Exhibition White 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.
Engine Black is black's softer relative, still authoritative, but with enough warmth to feel considered rather than severe.
Rust Iron a dusty taupe-brown, quiet and unassuming.
Aged Steel a burnt or terracotta orange, warmth read through a rustic, sun-worn filter.
Gallery Wall a burnt or terracotta orange, warmth read through a rustic, sun-worn filter.
Exhibition White a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
The highest form of sustainability is using what already exists - Tate Modern read a decommissioned Bankside power station as a turbine hall gallery, the High Line saw an elevated freight rail as a park, and Lacaton & Vassal transformed Grand Parc housing without moving a single tenant.
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