interior occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The palette balances warm and cool with remarkable evenness, giving the composition its characteristic vibrancy. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #997535 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (3.0%). The value range spans 62 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy.