Soft Systems Studio, Internal Review — Part Two

The palettes stay. The marks come loose.

You liked all five palettes and couldn’t settle on a mark — because each palette only ever showed you one. So they’re separated now: five new marks alongside the five you already saw, each one tried in all five palettes. Say a palette, a mark, or a pairing. Nothing here is a whole direction anymore.

Five new

Five new marks

The first five leaned geometric — blocks, bars, cuts. These cover different ground: a letterform, a grid, a single gesture, an opening, a single point. Shown here in plain ink, before any palette is applied.

And the five you already saw — unchanged, carried into the matrix below

Ten × five

Ten marks, five palettes

Tap any cell for that pairing at full size, and at 24 pixels — the size that actually has to work. The five columns are always in the same order: Fieldstone, Instrument, Almanac, Foundry, Understory.

Selected pairing