DFT Candidate E Micro-Round

Status: draft Scope: focused 6-slot tuning round on DFT Candidate E, testing slot 2 and slot 4 alternatives Source: DFT Category-10 Candidate Comparison

This note runs a smaller tuning round on the first six colors only. The goal is to test whether slot 2 needs more separation from slot 1, and whether slot 4 should remain brown or shift toward taupe or plum.

• Micro-round PNG
• Micro-round CSV

Ranking

• E Baseline: step 5 0.9%, step 6 3.5%, weakest ΔE 0.1
• E Slot4 Plum Brown: step 5 0.9%, step 6 3.5%, weakest ΔE 0.2
• E Slot2 Darker Cyan: step 5 1.4%, step 6 5.9%, weakest ΔE 0.1
• E Slot2 Less Cyan: step 5 1.4%, step 6 5.9%, weakest ΔE 0.1
• E Slot2 Teal: step 5 1.4%, step 6 5.9%, weakest ΔE 0.1
• E Slot4 Taupe Bronze: step 5 4.1%, step 6 5.6%, weakest ΔE 0.2
• E Hybrid Tune: step 5 4.7%, step 6 8.1%, weakest ΔE 0.2