The value structure of Pieter Codde is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. Pieter Codde orchestrates warmth above all else - reds, ambers, and siennas take the lead. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The highest-chroma note - #D5A268 - appears at just 3.6%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 68 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. In the context of Pieter Codde's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.