Benedetto Luti occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Neither warm nor cool has the upper hand here; the equilibrium between the two generates the palette's visual energy. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. Only 4.9% is devoted to #97572D, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. A value spread of 77 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. These proportions encode Benedetto Luti's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.