Baroque occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm hues command this palette; it favours the reds, oranges, and yellows of firelight and earth. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. #1C1816 at 30.0% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. The most saturated colour, #C6A26B, is reserved to 3.6% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 78 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.