Light floods Victor Hugo; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. Mid-range chroma keeps the palette grounded - colourful but not strident. The saturated accent, #551C27, registers at 9.2% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. A value spread of 71 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 3 of Victor Hugo's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.