portrait 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. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. At 8.7%, #965A28 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. 62 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.