Biedermeier is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. Warm and cool tones are held in careful balance - neither family dominates, creating tension and resolution simultaneously. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. #CCC0AF at 28.8% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. Only 1.1% is devoted to #98351E, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. A value spread of 55 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light.