Francesco Melzi is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Warmth dominates - the palette of Francesco Melzi leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. The highest-chroma note - #BB7849 - appears at just 5.8%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The palette spans 27 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Francesco Melzi's complete body of work advances.