Viviano Codazzi occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Viviano Codazzi balances warm and cool with remarkable evenness, giving the composition its characteristic vibrancy. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #6C5039, is reserved to 11.3% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. A value spread of 79 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. This is palette 1 of Viviano Codazzi's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.