Rococo 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. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. At 9.2%, #51321A 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.