Every palette ships with roles assigned — surface, support, primary, accent, ink — plus its contrast record. Copy it and you have a working theme, not five hex codes.
A slate-blue dark surface with one cyan primary. The accent is loud so status and alerts read at a glance against the calm chrome.
Champagne used the way a metal should be, at a fraction of the surface, over graphite and true black. No second accent and no colour; the restraint is the luxury.
Two accents at maximum chroma against near-black. Everything structural stays desaturated so the signal colors never compete.
Gold is a metal, not a highlighter — it works at 8% of the surface area, sitting on true blacks with a warm cast.