Plaster sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Olive is the swatch that breaks rank: a single yellow that stops the set reading as one note. Clay and Travertine are close enough in hue and lightness that most people will read them as one colour, which makes them a pair to separate rather than two choices to spend. Clay 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.
Plaster a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
Clay signals warmth, approachability, and creative energy, friendlier than red, louder than yellow.
Travertine signals warmth, approachability, and creative energy, friendlier than red, louder than yellow.
Olive a mustard or ochre yellow, optimism weathered into something wiser and more textured.
Walnut a dusty taupe-brown, quiet and unassuming.
Minimalism softened by nature: curves, plaster, travertine, raw wood, linen and sculptural lamps
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