Jean Hugo works in the upper reaches of the value scale, creating an atmosphere of brightness and expansiveness. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Jean Hugo deploys as the palette's primary energy. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. A single dominant - #F0DFD7 at 52.2% - sets the character of the whole composition. At 4.2%, #CD8D79 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. Value range is moderate at 46 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Jean Hugo's complete body of work advances.