Marietta Robusti occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm hues command this palette; Marietta Robusti favours the reds, oranges, and yellows of firelight and earth. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. The most saturated colour, #CC946C, is reserved to 5.0% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The full value range is 69 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. Taken together, these qualities constitute Marietta Robusti's chromatic voice - distinctive enough to be read across an entire body of work.