Across the Abstract Art movement, certain palette qualities recur - this distillation makes them visible at a glance. Mid-key values give Abstract Art its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Built on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. #C95E2D functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (3.0%). At 61 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. The Abstract Art movement spoke in this palette's vocabulary.