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Visual Design

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Issue 0452026-10-15

Negative space is a color decision: why your background is doing more work than you think

The background is rarely treated as a palette choice — it is usually white, or off-white, or slightly warm white. But background color is one of the highest-leverage decisions in a design system: it affects the perceived saturation and temperature of every other color in the composition.

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