Victor Palmov occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm hues command this palette; Victor Palmov favours the reds, oranges, and yellows of firelight and earth. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. #7F3F29 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (10.1%). 63 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. In the context of Victor Palmov's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.