Vibrant Royal Blue

Every designer has made a color mistake they could not unsee. You finish a layout, step back, and realize that something about the color combination is actively working against you — the text is hard to read, the palette feels aggressive, or two colors are fighting each other so loudly that nothing else in the design registers.

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