Acid Lime sets the weight of the palette in optimism and clarity, and Tomato is the swatch that breaks rank: a single orange that stops the set reading as one note. Saturation averages 75 percent with Acid Lime at the top, which is loud enough that the palette will fight anything else on the page. Acid Lime and Cobalt sit on opposite sides of the temperature line, which is the tension the palette runs on and the pair to hold apart.
Acid Lime an electric, high-visibility yellow: caution and euphoria share the same wavelength here.
Tomato a citrus-bright orange: enthusiasm, playfulness, an unmistakable call to attention.
Lilac a soft lilac, luxury's weight lifted into something delicate and romantic.
Cobalt a saturated ultraviolet-blue: intensity with a mystical, slightly electric edge.
Cream a pale butter yellow, gentle brightness, comfort more than alarm.
Photos reframed through blobs, flowers, arches and numerals on flat, saturated colour, so the crop itself becomes the graphic
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