sketch and study occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Saturation is measured and controlled, giving the palette presence without visual aggression. #CD3E1A is not a small accent - at 21.7% it qualifies as a major presence and gives the palette its chromatic identity. 69 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.