Jacques de Claeuw distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #D19960 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (5.0%). The value range spans 73 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. These proportions encode Jacques de Claeuw's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.