allegorical painting sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues deployed as the palette's primary energy. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #D5AF6C delivers the chromatic peak at only 4.5% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. 60 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.