Alexandre Charles Guillemot occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Alexandre Charles Guillemot balances warm and cool with remarkable evenness, giving the composition its characteristic vibrancy. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #B99362 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (8.1%). From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 63 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Alexandre Charles Guillemot's complete body of work advances.