Jules Salles occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Neither warm nor cool has the upper hand here; the equilibrium between the two generates the palette's visual energy. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The highest-chroma note - #79592D - appears at just 8.5%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. At 45 units across the value scale, the palette keeps contrast readable without letting it dominate. Palette 3 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Jules Salles's complete body of work advances.