Mid-key values give Academicism its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. At 8.4%, #B5926C carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. The full value range is 68 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form.