Marco Ricci occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from Marco Ricci carry the compositional weight. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. #E3B981 delivers the chromatic peak at only 6.3% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. At 60 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. This is palette 2 of Marco Ricci's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.