Simplício Rodrigues de Sá occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from Simplício Rodrigues de Sá carry the compositional weight. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. #E1C2A0 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (2.5%). A value spread of 61 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. This is the light Simplício Rodrigues de Sá preferred, made measurable.