Max Weber 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 Max Weber deploys as the palette's primary energy. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. The most saturated colour, #C0C594, is reserved to 6.3% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 58 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. This is palette 1 of Max Weber's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.