mural 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; it favours the reds, oranges, and yellows of firelight and earth. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. #B08C69 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (5.0%). A value spread of 57 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light.