Fernand Pelez 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 14.0% is devoted to #593E1C, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The value range spans 60 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. In the context of Fernand Pelez's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.