Workshop Black sets the weight of the palette in authority and restraint, and Muted Red is the swatch that breaks rank: a single red that stops the set reading as one note. Workshop Black to Warm Ground spans 76 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Muted Red and Slate Blue sit on opposite sides of the temperature line, which is the tension the palette runs on and the pair to hold apart.
Workshop Black is black's softer relative, still authoritative, but with enough warmth to feel considered rather than severe.
Muted Red reads as pure adrenaline: alarm, desire, the color of things that move fast.
Slate Blue is the most trusted color in color psychology: competence, stability, calm, used constantly by institutions that need to be believed.
Straw Yellow an electric, high-visibility yellow: caution and euphoria share the same wavelength here.
Warm Ground a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
Functional minimalist design with geometric forms and primary colors
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