self-portrait sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues deployed as the palette's primary energy. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. At 4.3%, #C67F1D carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. A value spread of 64 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light.