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Prairie color palettes

Prairie palettes are the Great Plains in August: ripe wheat, dry pasture, granary red and a big-sky blue that takes up half the frame. They suit farms, bakeries, land brands and honest-to-a-fault software — nothing grown indoors.

Gold and blue alone tip into sports team. The restraint each palette here shows: desaturate both a step toward dust, add a soil stop for ink, and let the sky stay the only truly clean hue on the page.