Xavier Mellery is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. #FBE68F is not a small accent - at 23.0% it qualifies as a major presence and gives the palette its chromatic identity. At 70 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 1 of Xavier Mellery's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.