Nikola Martinoski occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm and cool tones are held in careful balance - neither family dominates, creating tension and resolution simultaneously. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The highest-chroma note - #AD7D49 - appears at just 5.1%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. 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 Nikola Martinoski's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.