Francesco Melzi distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Temperature is balanced: the palette pits warm earth against cool sky without declaring a winner. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. The chromatic peak belongs to #553420, and at 7.4% it dominates, not decorates. A value spread of 57 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. The palette reads as an Impressionist one - light-biased, chromatically direct, and built on temperature contrast rather than value opposition. In the context of Francesco Melzi's full range of palettes, group 2 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.