still life occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warmth dominates - the palette leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #9D7544 delivers the chromatic peak at only 5.7% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. 62 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.