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Ask anyone their favourite colour. The answer is the sum of every layer covered in Arc 2. What personal preference reveals, what it hides, and where Arc 3 begins.
A palette is a key signature. How colour, value, and light together set the emotional temperature of a room, an image, or a page, and why dominant tones matter more than accents.
A specific blue can return a kitchen you have not stood in for thirty years. How colour binds to memory, why eras have palettes, and what it means for design.
Colour acts on the body before the mind names it. Goethe's emotional theory, the autonomic response, and what it means for colour to be felt.
Why gold replaced rose as the primary accent, what hex value was chosen, and how the arc colour system adapts.
Why I stripped the dynamic dropdown, flattened the nav, and moved Contact and Tools to the footer. The design reasoning behind the navigation redesign.
Why I moved away from a hero-and-tagline layout and let the arc structure lead. The design reasoning behind the new home page.
Three changes to the post list and article templates: the design reasoning behind each one.
A foundational framework for how colour shifts, softens and deepens. The trinity of HSL.
An exploration of the three traits that define every colour: hue, value, and chroma. The axes of perception.