Plywood sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Frame Black is the swatch that breaks rank: a single charcoal that stops the set reading as one note. Frame Black to Paper spans 76 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Propaganda Red and Soviet Blue sit on opposite sides of the temperature line, which is the tension the palette runs on and the pair to hold apart.
Frame Black is black's softer relative, still authoritative, but with enough warmth to feel considered rather than severe.
Propaganda Red reads as pure adrenaline: alarm, desire, the color of things that move fast.
Soviet Blue is the most trusted color in color psychology: competence, stability, calm, used constantly by institutions that need to be believed.
Plywood a burnt or terracotta orange, warmth read through a rustic, sun-worn filter.
Paper a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
The Soviet avant-garde weaponized architecture - Melnikov's rotating cylindrical house, Tatlin's spiraling tower to the Third International, Leonidov's crystalline social condensers: ideology made material and diagonal.
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