Colors that are equally spaced should look like less of a family. The old, chromatically clustered colors staked out thematic areas of the color wheel, and by

Colors that are equally spaced should look like less of a family. The old, chromatically clustered colors staked out thematic areas of the color wheel, and by not using the whole thing, retained some degree of ownable identity. The CS6 color palette barely even qualifies as a palette.