Mid-key values give Xavier Mellery its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Warm hues command this palette; Xavier Mellery favours the reds, oranges, and yellows of firelight and earth. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. The saturated accent, #F79522, registers at 10.3% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The full value range is 68 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. This is palette 5 of Xavier Mellery's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.