Alberto Vargas occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. #E6BB98 at 30.2% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. At 3.6%, #BF6950 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. 77 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Alberto Vargas's complete body of work advances.