I was interested in seeing what the colour palettes might look like in the real world. Here's are the some multicolr searches for the 5-colour palettes:
Man, I love those sets. Hadn't used that site before but it's awesome. Very nice to see the stark ocean and ink in water in the last set. Not too far off from the deep ocean feel I was targeting during design.
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,586e75,8394...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,93a1a1,eee8...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,839496,93a1...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,93a1a1,eee8...;
A search with just the base colours:
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e...;