It must be possible to achieve a happy medium: something with the legibility of an older design that doesn't look dated or unpolished. (Though I reject the noti

It must be possible to achieve a happy medium: something with the legibility of an older design that doesn't look dated or unpolished. (Though I reject the notion that 90's designs weren't sophisticated or polished.) It doesn't need to limit itself to six colours, but I'm not convinced that an endless series of shades with low contrast to one another is good design from a functional perspective.