AV-Pro works from period color chips, not from faded photos. They replicate every Pantone card the airline handed the terminal architect. Those original chips are already the buttery, camel, avocado and rust you see in the model

It probably felt brighter and more vivid at the time, because we were seeing it under our mental-white balance of fluorescent lights and comparing it to nicotine-pantinaed older materials. Today in our mental white balance model, we have titanium-white plastics and “cool-white” LEDs that didn't exist then