Marco Ricci 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. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #362919, is reserved to 10.0% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 60 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. This is the light Marco Ricci preferred, made measurable.