Orientalism 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. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. Only 2.6% is devoted to #EAD1A8, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 63 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth.