Diego Velazquez occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. Only 9.0% is devoted to #522D1B, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The full value range is 65 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette is recognisably Diego Velazquez's own: particular in its temperature, chroma, and the economy of its brightest note.