Francis Barlow 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. Only 3.8% is devoted to #E0B189, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The value range of 54 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Francis Barlow's complete body of work advances.