But the straightforward font and handsome, restrained coloring reflected the conservative mood of the United States at the time.
Since the company's inception in 2009, the founders Marc Daniels and Ricky Hendry have modeled their line on form and function, often using a restrained color palette that allows them to show off their knack for stylish innovations.
But it is not nearly so hyperactive as many of Mr. Jahn's recent buildings, like the frenetic Park Avenue Tower in Manhattan; here in Philadelphia, there is at least a highly restrained color palette, with everything falling into a relatively restrained range of gray, silver and metallic blue.
Some of the new independent-film directors, like Phil Morrison, who made the recent "Junebug," and Mike Mills, the director of "Thumbsucker," have developed a quiet camera style, a restrained color palette, and a way of shaping their scenes that is searching and open-ended — not tentative, exactly, but encouraging of ambiguities and multiple meanings.
MSNBC's aesthetic is more restrained, with muted colors (Maddow's show is signified by an affable light-blue strip across the top of the screen) and a minimum of text; there is almost never a news crawl across the bottom.
In chapter 4, "Unobtrusive Design: Introducing Three-Color to Conventional Production," Higgins examines the movement away from the demonstration mode to a restrained mode of color design, claiming that this movement may have been fueled by Becky Sharp's poor reviews and lackluster box-office receipts.
"I was pretty inspired by his restrained use of color".
The 2013 Speed Triple SE features a restrained Matte Graphite color scheme offset by a frame and swingarm painted in tasteful matte blue.
Just about this time, however, a tendency to more restrained use of color and more painterly effects began to emerge in nishiki-e, and with the exception of a burst of dynamic color in prints depicting the Sino Japanese War (1894 95), the uses of strong colors in Meiji prints receded.
Although the music attracted little notice at the time, its pastel colors and restrained ambience came to be regarded as a seminal influence on the so-called cool jazz that flourished in the middle and late 50's.
But the restrained palette of two-color Technicolor has its own charms.
