Francesco Beda 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. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. The most saturated colour, #D9BF7A, is reserved to 3.2% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range spans 58 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. This is palette 1 of Francesco Beda's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.