aestheticsSkills
Spend Your Boldness in One Place
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SHOULD: Use bold dominant colors with 1-2 sharp accent highlights. Avoid timid, evenly-distributed palettes. The 60-30-10 rule works, but pushing to 90% dominant with surgical accent placement is often better.
Commit to one dominant color with a single sharp accent and keep everything around it quiet, instead of an evenly-distributed timid palette
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Why it matters
A palette where every color competes is not bold, it is undecided — and a palette of washed-out neutrals is not restraint, it is a refusal to choose. Both fail the same way. Spend the boldness once: one dominant color that carries the surface, one sharp accent reserved for the thing you want the eye to land on, and disciplined quiet everywhere else.