Ferdinand du Puigaudeau occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature is balanced: the palette pits warm earth against cool sky without declaring a winner. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. The highest-chroma note - #907659 - appears at just 7.4%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The palette spans 50 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. Palette 3 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Ferdinand du Puigaudeau's complete body of work advances.