Ipolit Strambu is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Warm and cool tones are held in careful balance - neither family dominates, creating tension and resolution simultaneously. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #EAD3C0 delivers the chromatic peak at only 8.5% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. 54 units of value spread create a palette that is varied but unified - contrast in the service of harmony. In the context of Ipolit Strambu's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.