Hex Translator - SubPalette Tests

There's this 5-color palette I like, sort of a combination of muted/faded versions of teal, red-orange, gold, navy, and dark gray. Couldn't find a name for it specifically, but people seem to consider it part of Art Deco. Separately, I've been working on differently-weighted subpaletes for the next iteration of the Hex Translator. I decided to work out the relationships between those "Art Deco" colors using my homebrew color system so I could have the HT generate new versions of that palette. These were the results:

Began by getting as close as I could with selections from the 56-hue palette (the colors on the far left, excluding jet). Then figured out how those needed to change to match my ideal version of the Art Deco palette (the next column, indicated by the black triangle). Navy was complicated because I have rules about how modifications to BaseHues can't stack too much ink in one place, or get too dark—i.e., in CMYK, C+M+(Y/2)+(K×1.5) can't exceed 180. So the K formula for that color ends up being (180-((C+M+(Y/2))/1.5.

I treat teal as the index color from which all others (except jet) are calculated. So the red-orange slot, for example, is always the index BaseHue minus 24 (and wrapping around to 56 if less than 1). Confusingly (to me), in Excel, the actual formula for that (since there's no 0 BaseHue) ends up being MOD(IndexColor-25,56)+1. Then the result gets its CMY values multiplied by 0.95.

The next four columns are the subpalettes generated from different index colors (7, 34, 41, 55).

The process of figuring out how to translate an existing palette to my own grammar was engaging. Think I'll try this again with a different palette.