Mid-key values give Adolphe Piot its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. At 4.3%, #B97F44 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. 71 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. Palette 5 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Adolphe Piot's complete body of work advances.