Ludwig Mecklenburg occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Ludwig Mecklenburg deploys as the palette's primary energy. Saturation is measured and controlled, giving the palette presence without visual aggression. At 6.0%, #CB9D5A carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. Value range is moderate at 51 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. This is palette 1 of Ludwig Mecklenburg's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.