Umberto Veruda keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Umberto Veruda deploys as the palette's primary energy. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The most saturated colour, #DBBFA5, is reserved to 15.6% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 66 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. This is palette 1 of Umberto Veruda's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.