I did this exercise in acrylics for speed and made a number of scales until I was happy with this. We are asked to find the neutral gray equidistant between the two extremes and then place this gray next to both the white and the black.
This has the effect of changing the perception of that neutral gray – next to the white it takes on a darker tone, but next to the black it appears lighter than it actually is. The eye automatically seems to find the greatest contrast between the two tones it is looking at.
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