Jose Effio occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. At 6.2%, #8E5943 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. At 53 units across the value scale, the palette keeps contrast readable without letting it dominate. Jose Effio's palette 1 carries its own internal logic while remaining in conversation with the artist's broader colour intelligence.