Franz Sedlacek is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. 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 highest-chroma note - #B59B71 - appears at just 3.6%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. A value spread of 65 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. This is palette 1 of Franz Sedlacek's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.