There is a moment a few minutes after the sun drops when the whole sky turns into a gradient you could not paint on purpose. This scheme chases that feeling. Coral Glow leads as the warm, lit-from-within heart of it, with Tangerine Haze carrying that same heat a half-step softer.
Soft Gold is the light itself, the pale wash that ties the warm tones together and keeps the whole thing from getting heavy. Then the sky cools. Dusky Plum brings in that bruised, romantic purple that shows up at the horizon, and Evening Blue is the deep blue creeping in from above as the day lets go.
For 2026 the move is to lean warm and let the cool tones stay scarce, like a sunset where the glow wins. Run the corals and gold across your largest planes, then place the plum and blue with restraint so they read as depth rather than contrast. Done right, it feels less like a color scheme and more like a time of day you get to live in.