Alexandre Thomas Francia keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. At 5.0%, #4889A8 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 57 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Alexandre Thomas Francia arrived at this balance through long practice; the palette carries the weight of that experience.