From this sweater, I learned an important lesson about colour (I think). To me, the magenta absolutely pops out. It's basically a background colour + magenta sweater. This came as a total shock to me when I knit it. I thought that, since there were roughly equal amounts of each of the colours in the sweater, the sweater would come out looking roughly like a combination of those colours. 
I think a few things combine to cause the magenta to out-shine the other colours:
1) I think most of the other colours were heathers and it is a solid
2) I think most of the other colours were similar in hue to their neighbours, but not the magenta.
3) I think I used the magenta too frequently as the background colour in the long patterns. Greater spacing would have been better.
I don't mind the overall effect. As I've said, I love this sweater. I just wish I'd intended it to be like that.
I think that really the only way I'm going to "see" such a think in advance is to do extensive swatching. This isn't a strong point of mine, but I am sort of into the intellectual aspect of this project, so hopefully I'll find motivation to do my homework.
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