Gustave de Smet is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. Only 12.6% is devoted to #C88149, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The value range of 45 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is palette 1 of Gustave de Smet's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.