Ludwig Passini is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Ludwig Passini keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The chromatic peak belongs to #CCAB85, and at 29.5% it dominates, not decorates. The value range of 47 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is palette 1 of Ludwig Passini's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.