The Game of Marseille Palette 1

Palette Analysis

The Game of Marseille is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. The Game of Marseille builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. A single dominant - #E9DC94 at 40.7% - sets the character of the whole composition. #E9E0AF delivers the chromatic peak at only 7.1% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 67 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 1 of The Game of Marseille's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.