They match the categories. In the context of this black and white site, the colors function like street signals, except we have white, not red, and they signify complex information. In the plain black and white field of Exploration, there’s no distracting competition, no contrasting meaning.
Putting these in context, we have three Tags for the whole site: Scary, Good, and Scary good. I put them in that order because I like the “Scary” bookends.
So for each one, I chose some nice colors. Scary is White. It’s White because the whole field, unblemished, is open. Like unbroken snow. [Unbroken Snow, album by Creosote.]
Good is Yellow. Sunny. Happy. Totally safe, no worries here. Like a fabulous day in a forest, brook babbling beside you, trout hiding in the hidey holes carved by the eddies in the ebbs and flows of the streams and the seasons. All is well here.
Turquoise is Scary Good. Well, because I live in the US Southwest and Turquoise is scary good here. Lots of beautiful jewelry is made by the Indigenous Peoples here. Turquoise is the color of Adventure; of making it over the next rise as the day blooms.
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